it is a different culture that, say chat rooms, isn’t it? ;)
my husband was talking to a guy in Italy via ham radio for years. He was from Trieste, which us where my mother is from and half my family is still there. When we went to visit, he and Bruno met at a cafe. That’s my only ham story, but it was pretty neat.
It’s different from anything; and stories like yours are the reason I’m enchanted with it.
-JT