licensed in 1958, advanced in 1962, past my most active years by now, but play around with DM R with a few old turkeys... Internet and the dogged insistence of Morse Code did a lot to make AR decline over the years. The days of 25,000 people at the Dayton Hamfest - trademarked 'Hamvention', by some goofs, are over, but there are still a fair number - almost all graybeards BTW.