G'day all, I was introduced to SWLing way back as a small child in the mid to late 1960's courtesy of my grandparents enormous wooden cabinet 5 valve radio that included the short wave or 'overseas' bands.
Wow, listening to all those wonderful strange noises and foreign languages really blew my mind.
That my friends is where it all started for me!
Regards, Felix (vk4fuq) aka catman.