From a Grade 5 teacher
The class was quiet after the frog reel. I am not sure whether they learned biology or patience.
Oct. 1978Viewer Letters
Mail from viewers who may or may not have seen the same broadcast.
Reception reports / complaints / devotion
Operating thesis
Viewer Letters give the Reader witnesses. Some people write as children. Some as teachers. Some as radio operators. Some claim to remember broadcasts that never aired.
The best letters do not explain the project. They make the world wider around it.
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Reception reports and small devotions
Reception report
Carrier tone received after sign-off. Weak but steady. Could hear water behind it, though no programme was listed.
QSL requestedComplaint about the late film
Your announcer said a refuge picture would follow, but we received only mountains and a facility door.
UnsignedChild's postcard
I liked the white bird. Please show the white bird again. My brother says it was not real.
Crayon markSpecimens
What the room keeps
Reception as Proof
A broadcast becomes real when someone misremembers it in writing.
Postmark Weather
Every envelope is catalogued by place, date, pressure system, and apparent emotional temperature.
Viewer Mercy
The Reader believes complaints are a form of care, unless written entirely in red pencil.
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