Gibraltar is a small British Overseas territory located at the entrance of the Mediterranean. Heres a picture of where I live from Space. When I was at school, I read a book about radio and tried to make a one valve radio. It never worked, but I learnt a number of lessons, like the gain of a double diode which someone gave me for the project. I did build a working three valve set from a design in "Practical Wireless" and listened to GB2SM the Amateur radio station at the Science Museum. A home made transistor set was next and enabled me to listen to the commentary about John Glenn orbiting the earth for the first time on AFN.
	In 1976 I moved to Gibraltar. Telephone calls to the UK were expensive and when someone gave me a CB set to repair, and I tested it fully, and my interest in radio re-awakened. A visit to the local technical college and a couple of exams later I applied for my licence, and joined the local club. I was one of the first to try out packet radio and set up a node at the Top-of-the Rock, and a BBS at the Radio Club. A lot of effort went into monitoring RTTY transmissions from around the world, however where I live now is a bad area for HF reception, and I found 'rubber stamp' contacts on 6m unrewarding, so I'm not very radio-active. In September 2002 I traded in ZB0D in exchange the sparkling new ZB2JW which was just about to be wasted on someone else.
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