Expensive Hobby
Mountain Biking, SCUBA Diving and Amateur Radio are an expensive hobby to maintain, two of which require license to engage. And I’m engaging in all three of them. Oh wait a minute, there’s also Photography but I’m not that engage in it, maybe because of the fact that everyone is in it, so it diminish the exclusiveness to it. I’m content with what I currently have, except for when doing underwater shoot, now that will make a hole on my wallet.
Of all the three; ok four, I like Mountain Biking and Amateur Radio because of the DIY aspect of it. I’ve been cycling since I was young, so repairing or maintaining a bicycle is not a problem. I like electronics and had a fair share of DIY electronic project, one of which was illegal broadcasting, which I was not part of it, but I knew about it because we were getting the same DIY kit, so there. So the DIY element makes it a little cheaper. But does it?
Well, it’s not. The tools required to maintain a normal bike is cheap, but the tool for modern, expensive bike are not. The same with Amateur Radio, though I can conjure up an antenna using discarded recycled material, the tools needed to brew an antenna are not.
But then again, whats important is that the satisfaction that I’ll get making things work. And that’s why I like DIY.
My next expensive hobby is making a Drone, the one like what the military use only this one is for civilian. Thinking of merging it with Photography/Videography and Amateur Radio. Why? Because I’m a licensed radio operator, which permit me to use frequency other than that of normal RC frequency. Data collection mode ON.
