My life is so boring most days

Jim, when I lived across Grand Ave in SCW, I used to go to R.I.S.E, the Rio Institute for Senior Education. They have classes/seminars on a wide variety of subjects.
They are on Smokey Drive in El Mirage, just a block below Bell Road. I wish there was something like it here in Florida.
 

AZ Jim said:
I actually look forward to the mail and even read the junk mail. Anyone else similarly afflicted?
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Maybe not looking forward to mail but
there are days when even with any movie or TV series I want to watch I am bored with all of them.

Back home I spent most of my time on the radio as an amateur radio operator talking to people around the world now here in civilization and overwhelmed with restrictions on my radio gear I do not have even that to fill my days with, thank God I still have my blog and a brain that still can come up with interesting postings.

https://kl1hbalaska.wordpress.com/about/
 
AZ Jim said:
I don't use a walker or cane. Yeah, getting on in age is fun.
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I use a cane now after my heart attack and a couple of falls. Its been awhile since I bragged about not needing a little help getting around.
 

Pete said:
Maybe not looking forward to mail but
there are days when even with any movie or TV series I want to watch I am bored with all of them.

Back home I spent most of my time on the radio as an amateur radio operator talking to people around the world now here in civilization and overwhelmed with restrictions on my radio gear I do not have even that to fill my days with, thank God I still have my blog and a brain that still can come up with interesting postings.

https://kl1hbalaska.wordpress.com/about/
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I have been a licensed "Ham" for 36 years now. SWL since 1946 with a little Hallicrafter S-38 receiver. I am not active these days.
 
AZ Jim said:
I have been a licensed "Ham" for 36 years now. SWL since 1946
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I wonder if your inactivity with regards to amateur radio is because of restrictions where you live or for other reasons. When I moved here one of my first projects was to set up my "shack" I never even considered any regulations concerning antennas and RFI interference. I soon learned that the 'senior' apartments I lived in had quite a bit to say about antennas, ground wires and such and later learned about my radios interference with my neighbors computer/TV. Since then I have not been on the air and miss it. Back in Alaska a good portion of my day was 'on the air' and if filled up quite a bit of the hours so I never got bored. I may never have the 'antenna farm I once had back at my cabin but I am planing on returning to Alaska next spring and you can be assured that KL1HB will be heard calling CQ around the world once again.

My main antenna a Mosley TA-33 tri-bander at 45 feet

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..and my "shack" in the loft of my cabin where everything
was run off a battery bank and solar panels.

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Pete said:
I wonder if your inactivity with regards to amateur radio is because of restrictions where you live or for other reasons. When I moved here one of my first projects was to set up my "shack" I never even considered any regulations concerning antennas and RFI interference. I soon learned that the 'senior' apartments I lived in had quite a bit to say about antennas, ground wires and such and later learned about my radios interference with my neighbors computer/TV. Since then I have not been on the air and miss it. Back in Alaska a good portion of my day was 'on the air' and if filled up quite a bit of the hours so I never got bored. I may never have the 'antenna farm I once had back at my cabin but I am planing on returning to Alaska next spring and you can be assured that KL1HB will be heard calling CQ around the world once again.

My main antenna a Mosley TA-33 tri-bander at 45 feet

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..and my "shack" in the loft of my cabin where everything
was run off a battery bank and solar panels.

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The quality of hams isn't what it used to be. CB brought too many into the ranks who had no respect for good operating practice and the lessening of technology and CW made it possible to be licensed too easy to weed out the less serious. I don't miss it as it is now.
 
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