Joseph, I believe it was you, but I could be wrong, who in one of the geirus threads during the summer, was very against a ger socializing even with former family members, where there is strong reason to do so because of causing ill-feelings and a possible chilil hashem that people will say Jews do not respect their parents, etc.
I am trying to figure out how that would fit in with this hobby, where you are pretty much bound to speak to non-Jews, unless you had a small nucleus of Jewish hams you associated with or were members of an emergency team like ARES, where it was not for the friendhsip, but was more like a Hatzalah organization.