A little history :

                             My first steps in the ham radio  began in the middle of 1948. One day that I was looking for short wave broadcasting radio stations with a conventional vintage radio receiver, for the first time I listened to a station  that it was speaking with a strange code that I didn't understand, and then it turned out to be the radio station of one of the radio pioneers in Badalona, Mr. John Vidal  radio broadcasting's professional and founder of "EAJ 39 Radio Badalona ", with amateur call sign EA3BM (ex-EAR165)*. Even though, the man that was speaking was Mr. Vidal's second operator, his son Francis (also a professional radio-technician) who a little more later got the call sign EA3GG* and became one of the founder members of the U.R.E.

                             Then, and with the advice of my friend Francis, I entered in the world of the ham radio and  I remember that I spent many years practicing only as a SWL until much more later when, after having a little course of initiation  to the radio, I dared to mount my first VHF radio equipment based on vacuum tubes. In that time we had to build almost everything manually, as the coils that we had to redo them several times when we checked them with the "grid-dip" of my friend EA3GG in order to make them resonant to the appropriate frequency. Notwithstanding, we enjoy very much mounting and  interchanging the great experiences with other radioamateurs. Finally my friend Francis Vidal proceed to design my first HF transmitter all based on vacuum tubes with a 6146 in the power amplifier with an output power about  50 Watts AM, which straight away we mounted and I used it for the first time after getting the license and the new callsign   EA3TC at the beginning of  1969.

                             Later on I was changing and improving the equipment and as everybody I had some periods of many activity and others of almost no activity (always depending on the work and the circumstances, and keeping in mind that radio is a hobby for me and it never has to distract of my main duties). In spite of this I have confirmed more than two hundred entities or countries and I have worked nearly three hundred ones.

                              Being retired at the present time I can spend some more time with the radio and, in spite of uneven propagation, I enjoy as much of the CW such as the SSB and I keep the contact with the good friends that I made during all this years.
                    

                              * Silent keys  

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