I started my education at St Andrews school in Small Heath, close to the Birmingham City football ground. I stayed there till I was 13 years old, after which the family moved to Plymouth in Devon, UK. I Left education in 1958 and started work.
I started work at a Laundry as an apprentice Electrical Engineer. I am still in the same industry, but the Dry Cleaning side of it.
My work covers a wide rang of subjects, Steam generating equipment, Computers that control the processing, Refridgeration that is used for condencing the solvent after cleaning.
My hobbies are, and the main hobby is Amateur Radio, my callsign is G3YJQ I was licensed in 1969 and have been active on the RTTY mode for most of the time, and close behind is CW. For some time I was interested in Packet Radio. I was a systems operator for some time and held the Callsign for a node stack of GB7TM and also a Cluster Sysop with the Callsign of GB7PDX.
