You know you're getting old when . . .

[jhetley]

. . . "vintage radio" designs start to show up in your ham radio magazine that you built when you first got licensed.

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[pernishus.livejournal.com]

One of the joys and mysteries of my childhood was a single copy of QST from the 1930s that my father had amongst the piles of Scientific Americans and various technical magazines in his study. I examined it avidly, probably prompted to do so by the crystal radio sets he had helped my brother and me to build when I was about five or six years old. That crystal radio set was my lifeline to the outside world -- its significance is hinted at by the fact that when I got my first camera a year or two later, it was the only object that deserved three shots... well, I may be misinterpreting one of them, which features prominently in the foreground the figure of Phyllis Goff, my girl-friend in first and second grade...

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

This particular artifact (11-tube double-conversion superhet receiver) was published in QST about the time you were building that crystal set.

[wcg.livejournal.com]

I'd guess that old Halicrafters of yours counts as vintage too.

[jhetley.livejournal.com]

I think that one's "antique" rather than "vintage."