Born in the end of the 1950’s, I grew up with old tube radios. My grandparents as well as my parents owned such a radio, which I started to explore. They were looking like a piece of furniture instead of a technical apparatus. As a student aged 13 I used to listen to international radio stations broadcasting in English and German on the shortwave bands. Stations such as Radio Polonia, Radio HCJB, Radio Sweden, Radio Beijing and many more.