There was an eye doctor in my home town who ran a ham radio network for Christian missionaries. He was Dr. Wernerberg if that is the correct spelling. Although he was an Austrian Jew, he had converted to Christianity His network was the angel network.
He also bought radios for them which was a good idea as they would have sometimes been out of communications otherwise. At least back to the U.S. and the Southern Baptist Convention.
He would come up one week every Summer to Ridgecrest Baptist Assembly and I would meet him since we were from the same town and knew each other. I worked there on the rec crew and always got to see him during foreign missions week.
My Brother went to a school in New Orleans and got his first class radio operators license and then became the broadcast Engineer for Channel 10 in Mobil, then channel 13 in Panama City. Joe died early of a heart attack but we still had some fun with Ham radio.
Joe had a Zenith model which I can’t recall the name but it would bring in signals very clearly from all over the world.
I think he said it only had 6 tubes tho he said some were double use whatever that is.
I guess the internet is making inroads on ham,
Yes, I suppose it is. But I’m still one.
Not as active as I once was because of the internet.
But still have the gear, license, test equipment, parts and can fix things. Did my share of home brew building.
When despots disarm the public & cripple their ability to communicate you know that nation is in deep dooo.
You might find these interesting too. Some have been around a long time.
Christian Amateur Radio Nets
http://pages.suddenlink.net/k5oai/ham-skeds.html