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