this is my history :-
I attended night classes for 9 months back in 1979/1980 and took and passed my RAE
in the July of 1980, I obtained my first callsign ( G8YST )on 11/10/80.
I operated from my location at St Helens Merseyside until my move up to Carnforth in
Nov 1981.
I carried on operating on 2M/70cm for another 4 years, towards the end a friend of
mine ( G0CHV ..Mike )
finally coached me..encouraged me..(bullied me..) to get my class 'A' licence..G0CWP.
In a nice way of course..
I went for my morse test to the coastguard station at Lands End
( that was a story in itself! )
I finally arrived on the HF scene on 24/09/85.. I operated on all the bands for some
6 years before taking time out to do a degree course with the Open University.
I have now started to return to the fold..and I am trying to set up packet radio
yes I know it old now but I never did it..
I have tried to get back onto HF and found that G callsigns are still ignored...
do a little on vhf/uhf and am interested in going up in frequency..
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