New Hobby
So why did I decide to take up amateur radio as a hobby? I was a working student for a number of years, and more or less gave up hobbies when I started graduate school, and have always seemed to be so busy with work that I didn't really pick them back up. So once I turned 60, I decided it was going to be now or never. At first I thought I'd buy an old Dodge flatfender powerwagon, and fix that up. I started putting $25 per week away into my powerwagon fund, and spent some time visiting various websites to get a lay for the current market and start making plans. After a couple years of this, I came to the conclusion that a powerwagon would be a bottomless money pit for me, and I didn't really have a place to work on one. So then I thought about amateur radio. When I was in Boy Scouts, I earned the electronics and radio merit badges. My Dad was an Electronics Technician in the Coast Guard, and my Grandpa was a Radioman in the Navy during WWII, so I suppose I was bred ...