Any Shortwave lovers here?

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My dad's been into radio ever since he repaired his first bakelite table model in the early '50s as a kid! He's always had this knack for tinkering with tube electronics, and now his hobby has turned into a lucrative part time business restoring antique radios in Vernon-Rockville, CT.

As a kid in the late '60s, he built me a tiny cyrstal radio inside a candy tin...I'd fall asleep at night listening to the nearest AM station with an earphone stuck in my ear! Later he built me my first shortwave radio from old parts lying around in our garage, and I enjoyed that radio right up to the day I enlisted in the Army in '81. While I was away, it was lost during a move, and I missed it for awhile until I lost interest in radio.

It wasn't until '99 that my dad regained his love affair with vintage tube radios and began his little restoration business. In the process, he built me another tube shortwave radio, using used, NOS, and new parts throughout. It looks great, and works perfectly, and I've started listening late at night all over again!