On 02/18/2021 05:04 AM, wrote:
"Here, go into those woods and build a reasonably weatherproof structure
from the stuff that people have dumped there."

I spent a winter building shortwave radios out of junk I found in the
desert. Shotgun shells make great coil forms. Punch out the primer and
they're ready to screw to your breadboard.

I did splurge on a RadioShack FET for a transmitter. I made a CW contact
with a guy in Vegas. He said my frequency was drifting a little which
was rather amazing for the pile of junk (literally) I was transmitting with.