Any Shortwave lovers here?

[Reel 2 Reel]

I used to be a HAM..but I wanted voice privilges on HF bands ,and I couldn't pass the 13 words /min Morse code required for the General class licence.. ..thank the older generation who used that as a buffer to keep out "undesireables"....I lost interest...there was nothing in the 6 meter and 10 meter bands, and 2 metre just sucked anyway so I ran SSB in the grey band between 27.405 and 28.000mhz and eventually just got out of it

now I hear that you dont need a general class ticket to do voice on HF..but it's too late....I didn't renew my licence..and I not starting over from scratch...formerly N8NBF...