My wife Karen is a ham (AB4VE) but she also loves to crochet, tat, knit, cross-stitch, and sew-- I mean, those are the ones I can identify. One evening I found my dear wife in the dining room cutting out a pattern for something. The thing that caught my eye was the fact that she had taken one of my qrp rigs, the 80 Meter version of the NE4040, (November '94 QST) and my keyboard keyer, less keyboard, ( June '92 QST) and was using them to hold her material in place. I got quite a laugh out of this scene and had to take a picture. She has always admired my small construction projects. Now I know why! By the way, the rig to the far left with the big knob is a sewing machine.
(This originally appeared in the Foto Gallery of the ARRL Members Only Web site.)