De KA0WWT.
I have been licensed since 1986…dang that has been a while. I have been radio-inactive for the past few years as I got burned out on contesting and then life got in the way. All my antennas are now down and I have taken up metal detecting as a hobby. That tends to be somewhat funner to me now. My radio bug has been silenced and may rise again some day. But not in the near future.
Metal detecting is a fun hobby, you find a good deal of trash but you find some cool treasure too!!