[Elecraft] [OT] Stories

[Gary Hinson]

> I could get maudlin reminiscing about them but I long ago 
> learned that the
> way to grow old fast is to look backwards instead of forwards...

Absolutely!

Like my first ever single-transistor Xtal transmitter, my first ever
computer lives on.  Ok, so maybe I have changed the case, the system
board, the memory, the peripherals, the power supply, the operating
system, the hard drives and even the screws several times each, but
it's all been incremental "improvement" (for various values of
betterment).  

The homebrew mojo lives on.  

Even my K3 is not the same radio I built just a few months ago.

By the way, do you keep a radio journal or notebook?  I've kept one
for decades and now that my memory is fading, it's a great way to
remember my previous triumphs and mistakes, stories behind some of the
more bizarre QSOs in my logbooks, scraps of circuits and antenna
designs, field day photos, contest scores and more - not to reminisce
so much as to avoid making the same mistakes too many times.

73
Gary  ZL2iFB