Gary,

I can’t answer your question and not sure what age you have to be to qualify as an old codger? But I will say this in high school I had 5 lifelong friends who were all interested in radio and electronics. Out of the 5 there are 2 of us left, no one made it past 69 years of age, the most recent death happened this week, one was last October one guy in particular never made it past 60 he died about 10 years ago.