First year license renewal

Well, I paid my license renewal yesterday, so it's been about 12 months since I started as a ham, so probably around 16 months since I started down this path. 

In that time I've amassed:

4 radios including one in the car + 2 handhelds

3 in use antennas (though I've built a few more that have been replaced) 

3 SDR receivers

A lot of bits and pieces.

My log book shows 281 unique call signs - 6 on 80m, 62 on 40m and 206 on 15m. 272 were digital, 8 were SSTV and one was phone. My log misses a few SSTV QSOs because I forget to log some of them. It also doesn't log HF chats literally over the back fence or a couple of quick chats via the local repeater. 

My first HF QSO was on 80m with a chap on a park activation in bad weather. My last was literally to a chap over the back fence. 

I've amassed a wall full of FT8 awards - many of which reflect having worked all areas of Japan, having worked over 100 Asian calls, etc. I've also worked every zone in VK. 

I've got a stack of ISS diplomas and awards for pulling images from the ISS - the very thing that led me to this situation anyway. 

Moving forward:

I don't know. License is renewed, WIA membership is renewed, and I can just keep plodding along. 

I've been debating the market values for my two HF radios, and whether I could sell them both off and wind up with enough to buy a new radio that covers HF to UHF (or at least VHF). The gap is probably a bit too much at the moment, and to be honest, I think I'd prefer to keep the IC-706. If the separation kits for those weren't ludicrously expensive, and I could get one that would make it from my dash to the boot, I'd be tempted to move it to the car, and it'd be handy if I happened to be out and inclined to fiddle around on HF.

My radios at home tend to live in a state of silence - the G90 is nearly always doing FT8, and the IC-706 is mostly listening for SSTV on 40m. The car though is usually listening to the local VHF repeater - for the 10 minute intervals twice a day that I happen to be in the car these days. 

I've done little SSTV in a few weeks - the poor quality of the images received recently doesn't compel me to bother sending. As things improve that will no doubt change. It's probably a good reminder though that I need to revisit the balun hanging from the bottom of the dipole. The ends are exposed and I never did get around to insulating them. I really should do something about that soon.