The Amateur Amateur: Give Me That Old Ham Religion

By Gary Hoffman, KB0H
ARRL Contributing Editor

I was sitting in my shack, fuming over my latest failure. I was a computer professional for more than 40 years and I still couldn’t penetrate digital modes. Or understand the menus on modern transceivers. Or figure out why the heck my newest radio beeped at random times. I guess it’s because I’m an old fossil who never owned an X-this or i-that.

I kn…

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