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Enjoy your retirement, just have a hobby.

I'm an avid cyclist and a Ham Radio guy.

Later this summer the GF, I and several members of our ski club will be bicycling in France.

I'm already planning on working several island locations and doing some remote ham radio trips in 2023.

I cannot wait.

I've had my Extra class for the last 22 years. 20 years as advanced before that. Last year I finally purchased a Yaesu FT991A. It's plenty of radio for what I want to do. For many years I ran a Yaesu FT221 and had it hooked up to the packet radio gear in San Diego. When I moved to Pocatello, the ham community was much smaller. Mostly 2m radios on the mountain tops. One has a 10m FM link. Very little "450" activity. Quite a few towers with HF antennas in town. No DMR on 2m/450. The odd thing is there are some digital emergency data networks. AREDN. Some of the locals have nodes built for AREDN ops. I have a SignalLink USB that is going to get wiring up for FT8 at some point. Lots of deferred ham activity awaiting in retirement.

After building up some DMR rigs (CS800D), I'm annoyed at being tethered to a very manual configuration process on my desktop PC that needs to be uploaded/downloaded to the radios. The Yaesu digital modes with C4FM are very easy to configure from the front panel "on the fly". I did buy the software to program the FT991A. Could not be easier. Go to an online database, select the area and bands you want. A big CSV spreadsheet is generated. Cut and paste into the radio config, upload. Voila!