I went to a ham radio swap meet for the first time in years today. For the past several years I’ve been choosing to go to the gym instead of driving to a dusty fairgrounds to see the same junk being sold by the same people. The junk tends to move from owner to owner, but it always seems like the same stuff. I really just go to talk to the “old-timers”, the friends I only see a few times a year at some excuse for a ham radio gathering. This time I spent several hundred dollars on power cabling and tools, but everything I bought was new though the big draw of the swap meet is the older pre-used stuff. In any case, it was fun and I did stay to say hello to a lot of people I know.<\/p>\n
I guess the big news is that I did punt going to the gym today. It’s mainly because I realized that I’m not sure why I work so hard to say fit. My New Years resolution is to do more ham radio, and that means I have to gain several hundred pounds and get a comb-over to fit in. The gym is counter to those goals.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I went to a ham radio swap meet for the first time in years today. For the past several years I’ve been choosing to go to the gym instead of driving to a dusty fairgrounds to see the same junk being sold by the same people. The junk tends to move from owner to owner, but it always seems like the same stuff. I really just go to talk to the “old-timers”, the friends I only see a few times a year at some excuse for a ham radio gathering. This time I spent several hundred dollars on power cabling and tools, but everything I bought was new though the … Continue reading Hooray ham radio.<\/span>