[Milsurplus] So true

[Hubert Miller]

I attended here the summer field day, the first i have ever in having a license about 40 years - - with long years of inactivity, it
must be said. ( My Novice radio, in the 1980s, was a TCS rec and trans. ) Probably my last field day also, altho i make no judgements
on the event itself. One person, who i am pretty safe being sure they won’t be reading this, was racking up contacts, getting a score
and so on, but – i do not honestly think she could draw the schematic of a flashlight. Component level ham radio is pretty well over.
I base my statement not only on that  eye-opening field day experience, but on my association with local hams on the 2 meter nets.
I am not saying this is good or bad; it’s just the way it is.
I look at the innards of some CB talkie that has a seemingly fixable fault, see it’s all SMT, basically not economically repairable.
-Hue Miller
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