HI THERE AND THANKS FOR LOOKING ME UP
WELL AS RADIO GOES IVE BEEN AT IT FOR A NUMBER OF YEARS NOW
WHEN I WAS A KID I USED TO HAVE A LITTLE TRANSITOR RADIO AND ALWAYS TUNED TO RADIO LUXEMBURGH
REMEMBER THAT 1
ICAN REMEMBER LISTENING TO IT AND IT WOULD BE UP AND DOWN STRONG AND FADING
QSB AS I FOUND OUT MANY YEARS LATER
BUT WAY BACK THEN IT FACINATED ME
FROM THEN ON I WASNT WITHOUT MY RADIO IN BED TUNING AROUND LW AMD MW TO SEE WHAT I COULD HEAR
THEN FM CAME ALONG
I WAS SOON TO GET A LITTLE 3 BAND RADIO AND FOUND MYSELF TUNED TO THE POLICE AND FIRE AND AMBULANCE
WHEN THEY WERE JUST BELOW THE FM RADIO BAND
THIS I FOUND AMAZING
AGAIN ID ALWAYS BE TUNED AND LISTENING
THEN THE LITTLE WALKIE TAKIE WAS BORN ON 49 SOMETHING MHZ
I WAS ABLE TO TALK NOW BOY WAS THAT GREAT
SOON A FEW FREINDS HAD THEM TOO AND WE COULD ALL TALK TO EACH OTHER ALONG THE STREET
BUT WHEN WE WENT HOME AT NIGHT AND TRIED TO SPEAK TO EACH OTHER SOMETIMES WE COULDNT HEAR VERY WELL
A BIGGER ANTENNA WAS NEEDED
SO OUT I WENT DUG A HOLE FOUND A WOODEN POLE UNSCREWED THE TELESCOPIC ANTENNA FROM THE WALKIE
TAPED IT TO THE TOP RAN A WIRE FROM MY ROOM WINDOW TO THE ANTENNA AND STUCK IT IN THE AIR
NOW WE WERE COOKING WE COULD REACH THE FULL LENGTH OF MY STREET AND DOWN TO THE NEXT STREET
HAHA MAYBE 200 YARDS
THE DX AS ROLLING IN HAHA
SOMETIMES ID HEAR STRANGE LANGUAGES ON THIS WAS THIS THE DX
THEN ID HEARD OF CB RADIO
IT WAS JUST BEFORE FM CB CAME INTO PLAY
BUT I DIDNT HAVE 1 BUT 1 OR 2 OLDER PEOPLE IN OUR VILLAGE HAD STARTED UP ON AM
SO I COULD GO GET A LISTEN ANYWAY
CHRISTMAS CAME WHEN I WAS 12 YEARS OLD AND SANTA HAD BROUGHT ME A CB
A FIDELITY 3000 FM HOMEBASE THIS WAS THE BEES NEES LOADS OF BUTTONS
NOW I WAS SPOILED FOR CHOICE HAHA
NEXT ID BE SEEN TRYING TO ERECT ANTENNAS TO GET A BETTER SIG
BIGGER ANTENNAS AND QUITE A FEW RADIOS LATER I DISCOVERED SSB AND WAS AMAZED TO HEAR SPAIN FRANCE AND THE REST ON THE 11M SSB
I PLAYED SSB FOR A FEW YEARS GOING FROM CB RADIOS TO 10M HAM RADIOS AND FULL HF RADIOS
AGAIN I WAS LISTENING TO MORE SIGS BUT NOT LIKE BEFORE I WAS HOOKED
I SWL D FOR A ALONGTIME ON THE HAM BANDS BEFORE DECIDING TO GO FOR THE LICENSE
7 JULY 1998 I GOT MY LICENSE FOR VHF AND UHF USE
NOW I HAD TO GET THE MORSE
WHEN I HAD THE WALKIE TAKIE I COULD DO MORSE AND READ IT BUT NOW
FEW I WAS RUBBISH SO I PLODDED ALONG AND EVENTUALLY GOT IT INTO MY HEAD
KIND OF FELL AWAY FROM RADIO IN 2000 FOR A COUPLE OF YEARS
THEN CAME BACK BUT HAD FORGOT THE MORSE TRIED AGAIN BUT I REALLY WASNT UP FOR IT
SOON THEY CHANGED THE RULES TO ALLOW ALL WHOD DONE THE RADIO AMATEURS EXAM TO BE UPGRADED FOR FULL HF PRIVILAGES AND DROPPED THE MORSE REQUIREMENT
NOW WE WERE ON HF
SOON THE COUNTRY COUNT CLIMBED UP N UP
THOUGH NOW ITS GETTING HARDER BUT WE LL KEEP AT IT
RECENTLY STARTED A CLUB STATION AND CONTET STATION FOR ME AND A FEW FREINDS
A GREAT LOCATION FOR RADIO HERE IVE SPOKE TO ALL CORNERS OF THE WORLD