[obscurette]

"Radio" magazine was a constant source of frustration for me as a kid. I was never able to build interesting stuff from there. There was no radio club in the small town where I grew up and the only source of components for me was a small shop in the bigger neighbor town. But this shop had only components mostly for vacuum tubes TV-s and probably unlimited quantity of KT315 and KT361 transistors.

My world changed completely in the end of high school when I was introduced to local radio amateur. We visited this very same shop together and I found out that they had a lot of more interesting stuff available in back room :).