[Boatanchors] RE: Boatanchors Digest, Vol 16, Issue 18
Dave Maples
dsmaples at comcast.net
Thu May 12 22:20:14 EDT 2005
All: My XYL has allowed me to continue enjoying the hobby for the past 18+
years since we married. She had some interest in getting a license, but
then the awful interference issues in New Orleans during the 90s (I worked
at a NASA facility down there for about 8.5 years in the 90s) put her
completely off ham radio forever. She'd have made a good ham, too. She
loves me and just asks that I focus more on being a husband than being a
ham. That seems to me to be the right balance as well.
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My folks paid for a novice station for me in the 60s as well...and I guess
they did so for the same reasons. My did sure didn't know what the interest
in electricity and all would come to, but I guess he figured much the same
as the rest of you (he was a journalist in the 60s, and saw through his work
as a newspaperman what drugs, etc., was doing to the country). It wound up
allowing me to get a BSEE in 1978, and I've played more or less happily in
technology for the last 27 years...
Remembering sure can be fun...
Dave WB4FUR
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