@65dBnoise

Seeing the interior of the S-38 brings back the smell of old, dusty tube radios! Not sure if those were the good old days or not! 🙂

You have every reason to brag about leaping from Novice to Extra in one shot - that's quite an achievement!

I drifted away from ham radio many years ago myself. I was very much into RTTY at the time, but then microprocessors appeared and sucked up all my time and energy! 🤓