In a message dated 06-11-15, Tom Walker said to Holger Granholm:   
      
   Hi Tom,   
      
   HG>Yeah, those were the times when we still built our own gear instead of   
   HG>as now being appliance operators, hi.   
      
   TW> While I was a late comer into the ham community, 1992, becasue I   
   TW> tried for over 40 years to learn the code and it never clicked those   
   TW> were the "Good Old Days" Building your own rigs and having to really   
   TW> know some theory to pass the test.   
      
   Apparently I was an early comer then as got licensed 1951. I have always   
   been a "technical" ham and built my own gear until sometime after 1961   
   when I started my own business and there wasn't time enough left.   
      
   CU L8ER,   
      
   Holger   
      
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