The start....

A long time ago, well ok ... somewhere around a half century ago... I started doing things that I remember now... I remember my dads blue Jeep with the black soft top as he picked me up from kindergarten... I remember the wooden toy train set at kindergarten and tripping over something (I tended to trip over many things thruout my life so far...) and crashing into the corner of the table (that had the train set on it) with the side of my head... Maybe that is what caused the neurons in my head to become so active...

I remember the thrils of visiting with my grandfather in his ham shack and toying with the items that he had accumulated (in fact I have a morse key that came from his ham shack as a momento...) as a ham and as a line engineer for Kansas Gas and Electric...

I remember the items that my father had in his ham shack... the radios with the dials ... the noises of people talking around the world coming thru the air to chat with us to while away the time ... talking about their XYL's and the signal strength and to work the airwaves and find new "friends" from anywhere in the world... and mailing postcard QSO cards to each other to keep as a way to remember and establish how well you were able to communicate...

Times have changed.... and I have continued in communications .. telecommunications... in almost all its capabilities and variables...

With this blog I plan to leave information for others to accumulate and use ... some might be nonsensical ... some might be lighthearted and comical... yet other comments and annecdotes will be thought provoking (I hope) and cause others to explore the "greatest computer game ever" as I have been known to call it... even though it has no fancy GUI or WYSIWYG or even CGA... It has what drives the imagination and causes the person (the Teck-ni-shian) to become immersed in it and work with it and learn from it to continue to carry on and be able to accomplish what they can do as I have done...

There will be historical items... some with no need for explanation and others where without some explanation would be considered as out there...

There will be some items that have been revealed to others but were secrets for a long time... some of these will not involve telecommunications in the slightest... but will be there to support the rest of the story as a whole....

As it has been written elsewhere "Get in, sit down, buckle up and enjoy the ride..." Please feel free to comment and if there are items that need correction (unless while in the story they get corrected) then by all means please do comment with the correction...

For now I leave you with thinking back yourselves to remember from whence you came (I tend to attempt to use the vocabulary that I have grown so fond of discovering) and let us enjoy what will be lessons learned...