brewer12345
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I think I just found a new hobby. We must talk.
Any time. Easy to do, easy to teach.
I think I just found a new hobby. We must talk.
Do you mind starting a thread on beer making? It's obvious that as good ole boys like me as we get older, a great beer is of interest. Especially if you can brew at home for fraction of the cost.Any time. Easy to do, easy to teach.
My oldest hobby is scale model railroading....been 'playing with trains' since 1968!!!
My latest project - a car for my niece's boy.
- Amateur Radio (mainly building radios and becoming a better Morse code operator)
A senior friend of mine who does ham radio and keeps in contact with his group of buddies says they spend all their time talking on the radio about their PCs!I noticed there are some other posters or poster's SOs who are also hams. In today's Internet age, it is good to know there are people still interested in this form of communication.
Funny you mention that. The one time I did live in a house that I owned and could have put up some decent antennas, I was too involved in my career to have the interest to do so. About 6 months before I bought that place, I had the chance to buy a nice small house on a fairly remote hilltop overlooking downtown Los Angeles - there were only 3 houses total on the hill, which was accessible only by a narrow road with a hairpin bend. The house came with an empty lot next door included in the price of $150K. Due, I guess, to being preoccupied with my career, I wasn't even thinking of radio, but that would have been a good QTH for antennas. What was I thinking?I noticed there are some other posters or poster's SOs who are also hams. In today's Internet age, it is good to know there are people still interested in this form of communication.
Never a ham myself, but I used to be very interested in wireless electronics. I can still remember the 1st electronic hobbyist book on tube radios I bought when I was 12. It was the beginning of what became a lifelong hobby (I have been making most of my living doing more analytical/theoretical work than designing electronic circuits). I was most interested in QRP. When a youngster, used to dream of having my own place in the countryside so that I could string up aerials, and install huge Yagis. Now that I have such a place, and on a nice high ground too, my interest in it already fades.
I may get back to it one of these days. I have all the equipment (nice HP and Tek lab-grade stuff) to build whatever I want to. Perhaps it's one of those things that when you can do something too easily with all that test equipment, it takes the fun out of it.
My latest woodworking project - a car for my niece's boy. I'm starting to realize that the smaller projects are the most fun - take less time to build, cost less, and take up less space.
My latest woodworking project - a car for my niece's boy. I'm starting to realize that the smaller projects are the most fun - take less time to build, cost less, and take up less space.
Thats a beauty. You'd do well at the craft fairs with a line of these wooden toys.
A senior friend of mine who does ham radio and keeps in contact with his group of buddies says they spend all their time talking on the radio about their PCs!
Is it QST that your project will be featured on? I can go read that at a nearby city library.One of my home-brew projects is going to be featured in an ARRL publication coming out this year.
*sighs* Looks like I might have to find a part-time job this year so I can afford that Lazy Daze.........
deserat said:Quasi-retired here - hobbies:
1) Knitting
2) Reading
3) When I can find it, badminton playing
4) Snow skiing - will be going this weekend - one year after my second ACL reconstruction....sigh
5) Traveling - pretty good at setting up my own itineraries - research, timing, what is essential to see in a particular place
6) Reading blogs - surfing the internet - WAY too much of that
7 ) Hiking - will miss my weekly volksmarches here in Germany after moving back to the US
Hope to take up tap dancing soon and to want to finish a mini-triathlon by the time I'm 50.....also, still have many places in the world I wish to visit - want to snow ski in Japan and Australia and New Zealand for one. Want to attend the Australian Open for tennis (will have been to every Tennis Slam when get over there). Also will be working to design an indigenous garden in my new backyard - I have a lot of respect for landscape architects/gardeners. They have to have a very good vision of what the plants will look like over time and be PATIENT - not my strength