> in junior high and HS (back when they had Morse code tests!) I was in the same framing of age and schooling as you describe, and in an affluent area as well;

> in junior high and HS (back when they had Morse code tests!) I was in the same framing of age and schooling as you describe, and in an affluent area as well; perhaps the difference between your technology classes and mine was that mine were not "ham radio oriented". Not that I'm disinterested.