Wireless Fever - John Masefield Revisited

I must go back to the set again, to the superhet and the phones

And switch off the broadcast music, the announcer's measured tones

And search again on the short waves, with loud calls blending

For the dim sounds of the morse code that a far foe's sending

I must go back to the set again, for the time has come to seek

In the QRM and the QRN for my allocated squeak

And all I ask is a steady note, through the ether speeding

At a fair strength, in a quiet spot, at a nice speed for reading.

From Sea Fever by John Masefield. We think he would understand...