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In this list of manly hobbies, it is second.
http://www.artofmanliness.com/2016/01/25/the-ultimate-list-of-hobbies-for-men-75-ideas-for-your-free-time/

only if one can out strap.

I don't know if reading is really a hobby - let alone the number 1 hobby for men?  Maybe the list is in no particular order.  Interesting, however...

When I retire I think I'll take up lock picking!

...or an alcohol connoisseur. Actually, that goes along with ham radio. There's two hobbies at once.

B,

Watt? No pension? ? ?


KLC

Well they sell us too short.  ;D
#1 is probably chasin' whimmin.
--For a reading circle, of course.

Knitting?

Since that made the list, incredibly, I can admit knitting a FB ground screen out of steel wool. It didn't turn out too ba-a-a-a-d.

That's an interesting list. I wonder how many of them many of us have had as hobbies at one time or another. One of my friend once joked that my hobby was collecting hobbies. (ADHD???)  I scored 24/75. Can I be smug? How about if I use an SDR for #2?   ;D

Clark, if you want a *manly* ground screen, you use 1x2 welded horse fence...  ;)

Ok, here's the REAL problem.

Look at the picture.
I know what all that gear is!!

Note that in the pix on the web page, most of the men seem to have pipes!
Can you spot the pipes in the ham radio picture?  ;)

                   _-_-

PS. worse still, I just realized i own two of those pieces of gear, right now!!

Gotcha! I've got four of them as well as the pipes ;D ;D

I have 3 of the equipment, plus the bug and the mike. He has pipes but he has a cigarette in the ashtray.

And a cool Clark Gable mustache. I mean how much more manly can you get?
Not to many years ago virtually everyone smoked so we all smelled 'neutral' to each other.
Good thing. All gear was pristeen.  ;D

ooohhhhhhhh..... ARC-5s............ tail wagging heavily over here...... ;D

Yup!

We cannot forget this picture. Nice Pipes!

Jim
Wd5JKO

Where can one get a high res version??

  I own a R-390A and a few ARC-5 sets and used to own a Johnson Viking II that was covered inside with nicotine film.

Back in 2005 I tried to track that down. Appears to be lost forever. I was wanting CafePress to make me a shirt with that image on the back. At that time, CafeExpress was selling W8VYZ Coffee Cups, T-Shirt, and "Thongs".  :P
I don't recall the details anymore, but I think the call W1GFH is been recycled at least once.

Joe, W1GFH's Website:
http://www.qsl.net/wb1gfh/index.html

Jim
Wd5JKO

for good or bad let the photoshop run wild.

Note the derivative work is a GIF with the associated messy colors. The JPG has more accurate color. What the author of the derivative work may have produced that is better colorwise, I don't know.

Here is another manly man photo...

Jim
Wd5JKO

oh for a womanly wife, ice cold beer, and an all tube AM station.

quote in above image:
"This thoughtful wife knows the moment her husband tunes in on Schlitz the reception is good. For Schlitz has a very special taste that beer lovers are changing to with Ultra High Frequency. Taste Schlitz yourself, you'll know why -"

Jim
Wd5JKO