Homer Price

After mentioning Nancy another drawing of a kid involved with radio turned up of facetbook:

It's from the book: Homer Price by Robert McCloskey:

https://archive.org/details/homerprice0000unse_z3p6

Homer builds his radio with the benign presence of a skunk named Aroma - who is in the above picture.  Homer hears about an award ceremony on his radio and that ceremony figures in the story.  Also Homer has an antenna at the roof peak of his house as seen here:

One of the more famous stories in the book concerns doughnuts, here is a filmed version:

source: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jXeYNmqp8X4

I'm sure I must have read this book as a kid although I didn't remember it - it is a fun read.

Best Regards,
Chuck, WB9KZY
http://wb9kzy.com/ham.htm