Why?

I am sitting at my desk tonight trying to listen to morse code. Then I thought WHY? I blog I twitter I IM, I use the slayer app on facebook. Do I really need another semi-anonymous method of communication? Klingon might be more popular with people my age.

The only real open forums of communication in Ham radio are though nets and contests. I am never going to contest. I watched it. I'd rather read a book sit in a coffee shop noticing women I'll never get to date. I now I'm a computer nerd, but I know which form of silicon I prefer. I'm participating in field to to experience contesting. So other than an hour at field day at the end of the month, I'm never going to do it.

I have all the rights and priviledges allowed an Amateur by the FCC. I will never have the space for a proper antenna, so other than my little dual band radio, I have all the equipment I can validly make use of. I'm a 5 Watt 144M/440M kind of guy.

One thing I will pursue is the electronics side of things. Electronics, making bread and women are the things at the top of my list to understand. I've always been intrigued by how someone know how to slap the components on an electronic board.

I've never successfully made bread. Bread machines don't count. Hell, is there any guy who understands women?

My dad recently called me a serial hobbyist. So something else will pop up on the horizon, I'm sure.