Cottontail

Yeah!  Get your license.  I actually have not done much with SDRs, though I have played with them, IRL and virtually via the many web-facing SDR projects that exist now.  I do a lot of fox hunting (also called bunny hunting! 😬😓), and a couple of our group's regulars are way into SDR, and are always bringing their new gear to the hunts.  Believe it or not, I spend most of my time on the air doing Morse (CW).  It's no longer a license requirement, and its use has declined precipitously since the late 90s, but I think it's a fun little arcane corner of the hobby.  It's also a great excuse to play with even more vintage tech.

I've often wondered whether there's an unusually large intersection between ABDL and geekdom, ha ha.  Maybe I'm just seeing what I want to see, but it seems real.  I worked for a big software company (100k+ employees) for about 17 years, and by the time I left I'd become acquainted with more than a dozen ABDL coworkers.  That was thanks to another ADISCer, actually.  Kind of astonishing, considering I'd been completely alone in this diaper interest only a few years earlier.

Did you spend a lot of time waiting your turn at Dig Dug when you were younger?  I remember going to a local pizza restaurant as a kid in the early 80s, and pizza places all had arcade machines.  I'd beg Mom for quarters so I could play Frogger or Zaxxon.  Those quarters sure went fast!  I sucked at those games.

My friends and I would ride our bikes to a bowling alley about 2 hours from our houses (ya gotta love the 80s) to play arcade games.  Yea DigDug, Pacman, Donkey Kong, etc. were all there.  Guess you found out what was my fav game huh? We rode bikes and played all day!  Man those were great times!

Wow I can't believe you found a dozen ABDL coworkers!  How did that even happen?  I've never encountered another person with ABDL interests in real life.  I'm real shy about that so probably never will 😺.  I suppose I should never say never though.

BTW, I volunteer with dozens of hams at the museum (it's a radio museum) and they all tell me to get licensed 😺.  I suppose I should.

The coworker thing was not my doing.  Another ADISCer, after seeing my posts and how I described my job, DM-ed me and asked if I happened to work at, shall we say, Company X.  "Why, yes I do!"  / "Me too."  Turned out that he'd correctly guessed that about a few others as well (like I said, it was a huge company).  Over a couple of years, that group got larger.  Toward the end of my tenure there, we even had monthly munches in the company cafes.  Quite a thing!  I miss that.  I was a regular at a few other munches during those years, and everybody was very respectful.  I never had a bad time, so if you're at all inclined toward meeting others, I'll recommend it.

Wow, that's really cool about the radio museum.  I can see having a lot of fun with that!  There's a museum in Bellingham, WA, not far from me, called The Spark Museum.  Loads of fun, interactive exhibits, and vintage gear.  I wish I could visit more often.  The curator is really cool too.

I'm about to hop a train to Seattle.  Might write more later!

Hey there friend! haha