While its possibilities are so boundless and intricate that the most advanced engineers are only beginning to solve them, you may begin with very simple operations which may be explained in simple terms. Thousands of twelve year old boys, and girls , are operating satisfactorily, entertaining their families and friends, while educating themselves. Anyone with common sense can readily grasp the elementary principles and begin receiving at once. After that it is simply a question of time, study and practice. One has a constant sense of participating in the performance of magic.
Nobody starts receiving and abandons it.
One step leads to the next, and you simply cannot let it alone. Many of the important steps in the progress of radio have been discovered by amateurs as the result of their own experiments. Indeed, radio may be called the science of the amateur. As this book goes to press there are estimated to be amateur radio stations and residences with receiving outfits in this country to the number of over half a million, and the number is leaping ahead every day. In the United States the laws and restrictions are very favorable to amateurs.