The bowling season has just started here in Michigan, and this year, I’m bowling in two leagues: one on Monday night, and one on Friday afternoon. After week 1, my average is one pin short of 190, with series of 572 and 567. My high game was a 228.
This got me to thinking about what hobbies, besides ham radio, you all might have. Yesterday, I Tweeted:
Just started the new bowling season, and this year, I’ll be bowling in two leagues. First week’s average is 190, with a high game of 228. What other hobbies do you have besides #hamradio
Here are some of the replies:
Brian Knoblauch @GLMotorSports
Too many. Cars, motorcycles, airplanes, pistol/rifles, cycling, astronomy, was also starting to get into SCUBA too but my ears don’t like how rapid the pressure changes. Used to bowl as a sub on a league. Lifetime high game is only a 220 something.
Steve Carpenter @K4DXV
Fishing, amateur astronomy, and classic film.
tom @AJ4UQ
Colonial re-enactor focused on defense of the colony.
Daniel R. Simpson @danielrsimpson
Photography. Firearms. Volunteering with @rflbaldwin
Ralph_Stout @Ralph_Stout1957
Drummer in a local classic rock band. Been drumming over 43 years now.
Nick @scrubnick
The hobby that introduced me to ham radio, RC cars.
W1BV @W1BVradio
Our family took up golf to appeal to the masochist in us all.
PH5M marco @_PH5M<
Small trains 
Stu Foster @G7WAYI’m a disc jockey and have a drivetime radio show. I call it a hobby as I have a proper job as well…..
Phil – M0KPH @M0KPH
I shoot, but not so much these days due to dicky shoulders. Synthesizers are a great passion (I have lots), and I also like toys.
Vance @n3vem
Right now ham radio is my only hobby I really have time to pursue, unless you can count changing diapers as a hobby – I do a lot of that…
So, what are your other hobbies?
Photography, Firearms, Camping, Flying light aircraft
Videogames, Science Fiction Books, Baseball, Baseball Cards, Music, Tabletop Games, Hand Guns, Fishing, Graphic Design, and generally anything Creative or Electronic related. Dozens more that I can’t remember. More hobbies than I need by a landslide.
Other non radio hobbies? Fishing, guitar, photography, and I used to ride motorcycles. I also worked as a gunsmith as a second job for 20 years. I enjoyed the woodworking aspect of repair and restoration of stocks as well as refinishing and repairing the mechanisms of firearms. I had to give up most of that work with my hands because I wore them out and had to have two carpal tunnel release surgeries.
Now, I play with radio and still go fishing once in a while. I also have a 3 year old Pomeranian who thinks I exist to serve him, and he may be right. I am also active in veteran’s organizations, and I am a life member of Vietnam Veterans of America.
Radio control aircraft. My first electronics kit was a Heathkit GDA-1057 radio control system, in 1973, that ultimately got me into this hobby.
Biking: road, MTB, gravel, if it’s got pedals and two wheels, I’m all in. Backpacking. Car camping, usually in conjunction with biking. Castnet fishing.
But I manage to mix radio in with most of these at some level. Even though salt water and radios don’t mix too well, my QSL card has a pic of me throwing a castnet.
Golf, fishing, radio,magic..those are relatively cheap hobbies..
,,and a partner in a race car..that’s the expensive hobby (see website..) !
Too many, actually. D&D, Photography, RC Trucks, MOTA, Woodworking, Camping, ATVs …..
Used to be a big bowler when I lived in Michigan. 2 or 3 leagues each season. High game was 276 and was nerve racking! Then tore ligaments in my wrist, while bowling. That was the end of that. Was a lot of fun though. 73