Wendy Harris | The Signals Between Us

My dad kept proof that strangers had heard him.

He left behind more than 400 QSL cards, small physical confirmations that a radio contact took place. Dad died almost three years ago. I know very little about amateur radio, so I’m starting with the cards: cataloguing them, learning what they hold and following the personal, social and historical stories inside them.

At the same time, I spend much of my working life building with AI as the founder of Fourteen Seed. The technology is very different, but the loop often feels familiar. Send something out, receive something back, then work out whether what you meant survived the journey.

The Signals Between Us is my long-form monologue of discovery. Amateur radio, QSL cards, technical hobbies, AI projects and the ways humans use technology to find one another.

I’m not here to teach you how to use AI. I’m a wife, a mum, a founder and a daughter trying to understand what her late father left behind.

The cards are where I’m starting.