[terrylett]

Thanks for the clarification Ron and bless your heart for the encouragement.

I feel the same way - I'm certainly not giving up I'm just trying to make jokes about my mortality to help get me through. If I was 23 instead of the 63 years old that I am I would much more depressed. I would like to leave my niece some radios to keep or sell (like those 2 beautiful Hippos I have restored) because I want to help preserve old radio Americana as much as possible. I drive past the WLW AM broadcast tower and Voice of America museum almost every day and it makes me want to dig into some circuits.

Thanks again and good luck.