On Fri, 10 Apr 2015 04:13:16 -0700, whisky-dave wrote:

Are they many radios hams left, our rad-soc in the uni disapeared 20
years ago.

The advent of the computer has tempted away a vast proportion of
youngsters who would otherwise have got stuck into radio. I suspect the
resulting shortage is why good RF engineers are remunerated to such
stratospheric levels.