A lot of good Ham radio operators will do when most people have never even seen a ham radio. Hell, most trucks don’t even have CB radios in them any more
Still have a world band dial tube radio from a kit. Backed up by a very powerful Grundig, and another one that is hand dynamo charged, crank it and runs for an hour no wall juice.
Listened years ago to the the voice of the Chi-Coms... back then.. Radio Albania. In “sort of” english and gibberish. Could tune through the airwave distortion. Digital cannot do that, but the dialstat can— with the whistle coming in an out on the wave.