[Boatanchors] A good idea ---- Lamenting about the down hill spiral

[Jim Liles]

Hi all:
Rather than being whimsical about the times when we put a Regency converter, Johnson adventurer ,dynamotor, and straight key on the passengers seat of the ford and miraculously carried on a QSO without hitting a tree or driving over the neighbors hog, take a moment and share those home brew days with the rest of us.  I was licensed in 1953 and was lucky enough to experience the 1957 solar cycle.  Let's hear about the mods that are being applied to the radio's where you can touch a discrete component.  What have you built recently.  As time goes by, we have a tendency to lament the days of old when we were young and a whole world of experiences lay ahead.  They still do, they are simply different.  They are not gone, we have simply stopped doing those things that we found to be exciting.  The folks that are coming later than us are trapped in a world that is moving so rapidly that they can't and don't have the time and luxury to slow down and enjoy those special times.  Guess we can forgive the appliance operators, they were born a generation or two too late.  We were lucky!             Kindest Regards Jim K9AXN