I can certainly relate to the parallels. I’ve been US stamp collected (and now online dealer) since age eight. My collection now is at the point where adding just about any stamp to a blank spot could run close to what it would take to buy a used car. Thus, the poor collection is opened only occasionally.
I’ve been hamming since age 16 as a novice back in PA. Still chasing DX, mostly on CW, but every once in a while on FT8. As opposed to those rare stamps, the rare DX costs next to nothing to acquire, save some time away from family matters. But the beauty of ham radio is that there are soooo many other facets of it besides DX’ing. One can collect counties, try for 9BWAS (Nine Band Worked All States), or even go for it with QRP. Lots of great reasons to get on the air and actually converse with people! Jm / K7TXA Eagle, ID ______________________________________________________________ Elecraft mailing list Home: http://mailman.qth.net/mailman/listinfo/elecraft Help: http://mailman.qth.net/mmfaq.htm Post: mailto:Elecraft@mailman.qth.net This list hosted by: http://www.qsl.net Please help support this email list: http://www.qsl.net/donate.html Message delivered to arch...@mail-archive.com