50 years of amateur radio

Joe Veras' marvelous artful photo retrospective captures the mystery up close and personal. As a kid ham who spent too many hours in the cellar face-to-front panel with a battle-scarred  Hammarlund Super Pro,  and an Old Man who writes to excess, I'm still searching for the right words. But I'll tell ya -- I'm keeping this book close by for the duration. Not because I'm any sort of aficionado or collector, but because, honest to gosh, I've coveted and yes, dreamed about these things, some of these specific radios, as well as wee hour REM-blurred composites, ever since I could read an Allied catalog. Most I never got my hands on beyond the Land of Nod. But as long as I can pick up  K9OCO 's book and meditate on their sublime substance, I can still peacefully go where such magic boxes took me, long ago and far away.