So one radio can cover many bands. Antennas are easy. It only takes wire and a tree to string up an inverted fan dipole. I've helped Dad do that many ...imes to help other hams and for Field Day."Then, there's forty meters which is good for all over the U.S. and some overseas talk or DX as hams call it. For some reason, that was Dad's favorite band. I liked twenty meters, which is okay for the continental U.S. but great for talking overseas. I have worked over fifty countries on twenty meters. ‘I thought maybe you’d lost it or something, and then I’d…’ I trailed off as her frown deepened. ‘You goddamn son of a bitch,’ she said. ‘Didn’t I tell you I didn’t want to know why you were taking my class? Didn’t we have that conversation when you showed up at my door begging to be let in?’ ‘Well, yeah,’ I admitted. She glared at me. ‘I mean, yes, ma’am.’ ‘And then you turn in this,’ she threw the paper toward me. It fluttered to the ground well short of my desk, and I wasn’t about to stand. But, hey, what the fuck did I know? Who the hell was I to question what Doctor Meadows had said? Everything sort of got real strange real quick. Especially the way Mom reacted to the suggestion that she could be the one to provide the solution. A kind of sexual substitute as it were."But, Mrs. Peterson," Doctor Meadows had said earnestly, "You just told me Henry doesn't have a girlfriend and who else is going to help him with his aching testicles?"Honestly, I had expected my Mother to go. .. driver get us to Nashville any faster?" This from Marianne after agonizing swoops over steep and short hills, twisting roads and almost constant swaying side to side for those in the back. Marianne was convinced that Sanford was trying his best to make their ride as uncomfortable as possible."Marianne, Sanford is doing his best to get us to the highway."Sanford, what seems to be the trouble. Shouldn't we be on the Interstate by now?" Why, yes sir. I thought I knew these hill roads an' I was.