Talking to the world from a rooftop in Dhaka: The story of Bangladesh’s amateur radio community (Bangladesh)

The room looks rather unassuming from outside. On the first floor of a residential building in Mohammadpur, Dhaka, it is cluttered in the way only a certain kind of person’s room becomes cluttered — purposefully, lovingly. 

Shelves sag under transceivers, coils of cable, and half-assembled circuit boards. A fluffy orange cat surveys the chaos from a workbench by the window. On a nearby laptop screen is a dense circuit schematic.

This is the home station of Fazley Rabby — callsign S21RC — and it is, in the most literal sense, a window to the world.

“The talking itself is not the main point,” Rabby says, leaning back in his chair. “It is the fact that I could make that connection — using an antenna I built myself, without the internet, without anything else. It is like angling. You might spend thousands of taka just to catch a small fish, but the joy is in the catch.”

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