Nice to meet you Bill,
I have 2 Zenith transoceanic radios in my office- Real radios DO glow in the dark. My broadcast experience was a 1KW daytime/250 W nighttime AM broadcast station in my hometown. First Class Licenses were valuable to the management then, as someone had to be checking meter readings and signing that log book. That job, then 2 way tech work paid for my college degree. Opened a little stereo store after graduating from college. No one was walking around with an Empire turntable, Marantz 1060 amp, and Klipsch Heresy Speakers while they jogged. then went to work for a electric utility company in their comm dept. Worked on Base stations, mobile radios, lease circuits, key systems, PBX, Microwave carrier, SCADA in the substations, then fiber optics.
Got my First Phone in '77 now it is a GROL, WD0FBN since '78 I think, General class ham upgrade from conditional because of my clumsy code, but I have a couple of extra study guides, want to sit for the extra exam before the question pool changes end of June. They didn't have Electronics Workbench (er Multisim)when I was first in school, only breadboards, and not the neat little white one I just received. Come to think of it, no computers either. Our breadboards in HS and college were metal encased resin boards with springs that you hoped held the wires good enough to make a connection, with tubes that plugged into sockets that were on the panel. Troubleshooting was the main lesson taught on those setups.
Thus far, the course has been a lot of fun, and I have relearned a lot.
Thank you for your response to my introduction.
Wayne