Foundations Of Amateur Radio

Foundations of Amateur Radio Life is messy. This is not a revelation. We attempt to organise this chaos by using all kinds of magic incantations, to-do lists, new year resolutions, plans, projects and anything else you might have in your arsenal. The same chaos reigns, in how we make progress. Some days are harder than others. I'm mentioning this because I've seen a couple of amateurs share all the things they didn't achieve last year. If we used that metric, I could point out that I didn't win the lotto, likely, neither did you, or your friends. I didn't get on HF to make a contact, I didn't put up a 6BTV antenna, the list is never ending. In other words, it's easy to say what you didn't do. What if you turned this upside down? I hosted my weekly radio net for its thirteenth year, I had my beacon heard more times than I have bandwidth available to check right now, I started a project that looks like it's going to keep me busy for some time to come. I've been working my way through a full system crash and I