Throw a wire over a tree and tune to 40m band. You will have contact with folks in many states just like that.
That doesn't actually work so well in practice. A good antenna still matters, min or max.
And think about how much news we get from Pravda (who would have expected that?) or the UK. Stuff that doesn't get printed here.
We need world-wide comms.
/johnny
“Throw a wire over a tree and tune to 40m band. You will have contact with folks in many states just like that.”
I pretty well know that.
Before my station burned to the ground in the late 80s, I had worked every possible DXCC country, and was top of the honor roll.
De W4EX