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While most millennials scroll through TikTok, Amanda spends nights hunched over a vintage Yaesu transceiver in her cramped Quezon City apartment. She’s part of a dying breed — amateur radio operators, or “hams” — but with a twist. She doesn’t just relay weather reports or emergency traffic. She curates sonic postcards : the sound of a sorbetero’s bell in Santa Mesa, the whispered prayers from a Quiapo candle vendor, the midnight clatter of a Paco train crossing. While most millennials scroll through TikTok, Amanda spends