Ham radio operators let their fingers do the talking (Maine)

Jeff Hanscom still gets giddy when he hears someone on the other end of the line.

Hanscom, a Bar Harbor resident and an engineering technician at Mount Desert Island Hospital, first began experimenting with ham radios 40 years ago. As a 15-year-old boy, he was simply fascinated by the idea of being able to transmit a message that could instantly be received and heard anywhere on the globe.

“It was like magic to me,” Hanscom said. “It was just the excitement of being able to take a simple radio signal, send out a signal and be able to contact somebody who’s hundreds or thousands of miles away from you.”

Read more – Mount Desert Islander: https://www.mdislander.com/living/ham-radio-operators-reach-out-to-the-world