For those of you who are just coming here for the first time, you’ll probably notice that my last post was back in August of 2008, which puts this one about 10 months later. Not really a good way to build up any sort of a regular readership, is it?
Every summer when vacation time rolls around, I start to pull out the radios, both the 2m HT and the 803A and get ready for a few more months on the air, with the idea that I’m going to keep it going through the winter. But it never seems to work out that way, unfortunately.
I still check into eham.net and QRZ, when I decide that I can put up with the negativity that seems to flow out of them in the comments to their posts, but I seem to forget about getting on the radio.
At least I get bitten by the bug each summer, but it doesn’t bite hard enough to last me the whole year. Plus, every radio club around here shuts down for the summer, which really gives me no place to go to reconnect with the hobby.
But I did go to the local club’s meetings back in the spring, before coaching baseball started up and made attending the Tuesday night meetings pretty much impossible. The meetings start up again in September, though, so I’m going to drop my dues on the table again and keep going.
I don’t want it to just be a summer hobby – it’s something that I enjoy too much when I get into it. There’s too many cool things that I want to try, and if I’m only active for two or three months per year, those experiences probably aren’t going to happen.
So I’m going to keep at it.
I know what you mean. I don’t know if it is that the bug doesn’t bite me hard enough or if it is just that I don’t have a good attention span
I tend to get into radio in waves. I got my license last August and still only have a 2m HT. I have a feeling that if I invest in some more equipment (at least a dual band HT or mobile) I might get more into it regularly. On the other hand I don’t want to invest in anything in case I don’t end up using it! I am interested in too many different things lately (lots of different projects at work, getting fitter, etc) but don’t concentrate fully on any of them 
A fellow VK4 ham msg’d me on 73s.org to tell me that he has his IRLP node set up more permanently now…and it is not far from my QTH. So that might get me reinvigorated! IRLP is a real buzz. I love telling non-hams and students about it. It think it is a good way for them to see how some of the other technologies they are used to work. Eg Mobile/Cell phones, etc.
Good luck with reinvigorating your hobby! Enjoy your summer…it is cool here at the moment. As cool as it gets in Brisbane, Queensland though. Nothing compared to some of the temperatures you guys can get up there!
Regards,
Nathan VK4FSCR
Brisbane, Australia
By: Nathan on June 7, 2009
at 5:21 pm