[Boatanchors] The Problem With Boat Anchors

[Rob Atkinson]

Also I bet in those days many hams had children and grandchildren
living nearby (this thing with the kids moving 1000 miles away had not
begun yet) so they always had a strapping high school kid around to
help out.  Maybe a teenager interested in radio.   Now the kids are in
la la land with video games.


73
Rob
K5UJ



On Mon, Aug 25, 2014 at 2:34 PM, Robert Nickels <ranickel at comcast.net> wrote:
> On 8/25/2014 2:09 PM, Rob Atkinson wrote:
>>
>> Back in the '40s and '50s when this gear was the norm, most ops never made
>> it to 65.
>
>
> To underscore Rob's point, I was recently flipping thru the Dec. 1951 issue
> of QST (which is my own vintage) and noted that a retired physician in San
> Diego was not only the oldest person to seek the new Novice license at age
> 86, but also "one of the oldest hams in the country".
>
> 73, Bob W9RAN
>
>
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