[Elecraft] OT: The day I found out I was going to be an engineer

[John Gay]

I owe my interest to an unknown person, likely a ham. When I was around 11 I found an Allied Radio and a Lafayette Radio catalog in an abandoned homesteaders cabin on the family ranch that some hunters had left behind after using it for shelter during the Montana deer hunting season. Old catalogs often served as TP in such circumstances. Until then I had no idea shortwave radio existed and being a little remote, we had just gotten REA. In went bingo cards for current catalogs.
 Not much later I’d taught myself to solder and built a Knightkit Star Roamer. Even joined the ARRL as an associate. But no one to work with me on the code; the one local ham I could find refused. 
Then as a GE freshman, the EE demo was really boring (the microchip revolution hadn’t hit the curriculum yet) so ME it was but engineering never the less. And more career changes ahead.

73,
John K7JG

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