Well, she is pretty tolerant of the things I like. She asked the question though and I didnt have a good answer. It's not like when she asked about me getting my hound. With that I was able to say I was going hunt for hides. HAM is just kind of out of the norm for me. When I told her it was so I could talk to strangers, she said I already do that on the net. She puts up with and even gets into prepping, but I didnt want to lead her to believe that the main reason I want a radio is for when things go bad. Actually, that is one of the lesser reasons. My goals are to make contact with people allover the globe and with all of you. Contacting the space station will be cool too.
I have always been somewhat interested in electronics, but had no way to really go about learning. I hope to achieve a level of lnowledge so that I can learn to build different components as well as some of the kits that are available.
One thing that would bite me in the behind quicker than anything, is if I brought up the cost of a saddle. In this house, I am the tack junky. She used to be until we got together and she saw that when it came to buying tack, she could'nt hold a candle to me. I have a few silver bits that make a Yeasu 897 look cheap. The last saddle bought, I got for her, but I'm the one who uses it. When it comes to spending money I got lucky, because she is the sensible one of us.
Tex