A "losing it" Friday...

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Ming got me up in time for me to attend my third ham breakfast in a row. If I don't watch it, pretty soon, I'll be a "regular."

While waiting for my huevos rancheros, it struck me that I am the youngest person at the table. While I don't expect to see high-schoolers at the breakfast (there are, I suppose, drug tests to study for), I am a little surprised that I'm the "kid" in the crowd, here.

I haven't done much thinking about it, but I wonder just where "ham radio" lies in the priorities of kids today?

I would not be surprised to see it near the bottom. Technology today is too easy to master to worry about thinking about what lies "under the hood" of anything nowadays, much less radio.

One of the old-timers, Kurt D., told me of a new program available for download by hams that allow amateur radio communication over the Internet. I'm sure I didn't understand fully what the program is ablut, but he sure was enthusiastic about it.

* * *My aerospace Houston client called with a small job for Monday, and a request to accelerate delivery on the edit I started last night. I left the store and finished the edit, then crashed for a couple of hours before returning to the store. We rescheduled the session with the county assessor for next Friday, when it became clear neither side was prepared to discuss what needs to be discussed today.

I missed a call on my cell at around noon asking if I was free to do an assignment in Houston starting pretty much immediately. Though my plate is largely clear, I do have some urgent and important items that need to be taken care of soonest, so I really would not have been able to go, even if I had answered the phone on the first ring.

It's getting late, and I'm still tired (been that way all day, except for the nap, which didn't really help much).

Cheers...

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Both my tenants, meredith and heath as well as at least one mutal friend, carrie, are in their twenties and now have their licenses. Heath is already busy building up his QSL card collection.

I got my Novice license in Jr. High, but didn't upgrade after the one-year term because I decided I was going into electronics and wanted hobbys outside the field.

But we built a lot of stuff, and most of the young hams now seem to mostly buy equipment. And the current crop of equipment is really great stuff, compared to what we had to work with, if rather high-priced.