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Of more interest is ham radio and its relationship to myself through the years. Let's go way back and start close to (or at) the beginning. I was born in the pre-WW2 era in my maternal grandfather's house. However, that had little to do with my formative years. I was raised on a farm/ranch on the edge of the Central Texas Hill County area. Now this was a real working farm/ranch. No running water, indoor bathroom, electricity or phone. My father built a four room single wall bungalow with no porches complete
We raised cattle, chickens and hogs and butchered most of our own meat. We grew oats (usually with lespedeza intermixed), wheat, sorghum and corn. We bailed the oats and lespedeza for cattle fodder and combined the wheat. All of these provided for the family and the surpluses were cash crops: however, cattle were the main cash crop. For most of my formative years, we ground some of the wheat into flour and some of the corn into corn meal. We ate lot of cornbread and corn on the cob. Some of the sorghum was