My impression of that hobby is that it attracts the kind of man that would go to a Star Trek convention. You know, a super-nerd.
I don't know, I think ham radio is very cool..
I talked to a guy not long ago, who was on a south pacific island, that lived on a boat with his dog, and sold fish to the island folks...He was a lone voice on a frequency, looking for contact...His radio signal was a little weak but readable...
It was interesting taking to him...He was eating breakfast, sun was coming up, and I was getting reading to go to sleep in my part of the world. He told me about his life in Australia and sailing the south pacific, and I told him how I designed my own omni directional vertical antenna systems, and the explained my power output was only about 100 watts...About that of a light bulb...
My other hobby?
I shoot the stars...
I built my own observatory and take digital images of deep space objects...
Here's my humble little observatory...It's designed so I can remotely control it from the house if desired.
And here is an image I shot of Orion last year, '09 of M42 Orion Nebula, which is actually a stellar nursery where over 700 stars at various stages are being formed within the central core of the nebula. Taken with a 10" catadioptric SCT at prime focus... This was a series of 35x110second, ISO-800 raw images, stacked, combined and calibrated in DSS.
