TOM WALKER wrote to ROY WITT:   
      
    RW> TW>> Those Days are long past for me.   
      
    RW>> When I was in the Poway radio club, there was a lot of old timers   
    RW>> (to me (35yo) at the time) coming on board because of the club's   
    RW>> training and recruiting program. They were retired guys (some in   
    RW>> their 80s), mostly from Rancho Bernardo who had nothing better to   
    RW>> do. Most were Technicians because of the 13wpm code hurdle, but they   
    RW>> were happy to use the repeater and help in other ways (field day).   
    RW>> They're SKs now, but they stayed active for the most part. It's   
    RW>> never too late to get involved.   
      
    TW> I still help with the El Cajon Club Field Day set up but the old ears   
    TW> and brain are not much good for anything else. When one cannot hear   
    TW> very well and cannot rembember long enough to fill out the log it is   
    TW> best left to the younger folks.   
      
   I understand that completely. When we moved to Texas, my friend Andrew was   
   already here and taking care of his 90yo grandfather. It was really hard   
   to communicate with Ray, as he was stone deaf, even with a hearing aid in   
   each ear. He was a newspaper editor/publisher in his former life (before   
   he retired) and his computer kept him busy throughout the day. When 5pm   
   arrived, out came the Scotch and he was a goner by 6pm... 8^)   
      
    TW> Actually ther kid in charge fo the Field day setup is only 16 and his   
    TW> 14 year old daughter, and and a couple of others in that age group   
    TW> handled the 2 meter band during field itself.   
      
   Youngsters are great for that kind of thing. We had a few of those running   
   around the field in Powary too.   
      
            R\%/itt   
      
      
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