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While visiting his Grandparents, fourteen year old Oscar finds an old wireless radio in the basement. Taking an interest in radios, he discovers Amateur Radio and learns about "hams" using their radios to talk to each other across the country and around the world. The adventure continues when Oscar and his friend earn their Amateur Radio licenses and visit a solar powered ham radio station in the Australian Outback. Oscar soon realizes that this hobby is a means of making friends from all over the world with untold opportunities for new adventures.

© 2010, Robert Norman.