"Mike Andrews" wrote in message
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jakdedert wrote:

"JJ" wrote in message
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No Spam wrote:


Unfortunately, I dropped out of Ham radio to work on S/360 OS/MVT
and then MVS systems so I didn't have the first hand experience of
seeing the dieoff.

Same hear, running around fixing 360 main frames and related I/O kept
me
too busy to ham much.

Both of you (as well as myself) *WERE* the die off....

And, I suppose, I: my Novice lapsed while I was off at school, then
I started working in the space program (read "6 or 7 12-hour shifts
most weeks"), then went in the military (read "no time while in tech
school, then no time while out of country") and then got into ...
working on MFT-II, MVT, and MVS systems, like No Spam.

Personally, I got intensely involved in the music scene and became a sound
engineer. Traveling around the world with various musical groups gave me
little time/place/incentive to raise an antenna farm....

jak


Then I started acquiring boatanchors, after my late wife died. Some of
them actually have been known to work.

But I'm gonna get my General ticket Real Soon Now!

Probably too late for me. However in stories like these, there might be
some hint of an idea where ham radio failed us--and we--it. The common
threads seem to have to do with time, money, interest, space...perhaps
relevance to the lifestyles we chose.

In hindsight, perhaps better minds than mine could have come up with a
solution in time....

jak

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