Do you remember when?

Once, a long time ago, I could read Morse Code at close to 30 words a minute. (thats good by the way!) I could send just a little faster but that’s never a good thing to do. Another operator would always assume that if you sent at that lick you could receive at the same pace and then I’d struggle to keep up and get things all messed up!

Isn’t it interesting how things move on and change (faster it seems as we get older)? Once, long ago too, I could tell you what almost all of those cables in todays picture did. The vast rat nest of cables were all in there for something and were part of a TV Broadcast truck I used to work with. These days, almost all of that technology can be condensed into something I can carry in a medium size briefcase!

Equally interesting to me is how much we value things, then, and now. These days some of the tools and equipment I used growing up would find themselves in a museum. (In fact I’ve SEEN my Morse key in a museum and boy did THAT make me feel old!) Things that “back then” we would pay dearly to have delivered we now pay equally dearly to have taken away.

Constants and absolutes, things that don’t change, are rare. When I find THOSE things I’m much more likely to hang on for dear life… Like God for instance!