G3SZG
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G3SZG
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I first became interested in radio in 1957 when I was 11 years old. At the time, I was living in Laleham, near Staines not to far from London Heathrow airport. One of our group of local teenage youths started staying in a lot to "listen to his radio" and this led to the rest of us taking and interest to varying degrees. I started as broadcast band short-wave listener (swl) utilising an old gramophone chassis which I bought for five shillings at a local Radio & TV shop. This tuned several of the short-wave broadcast bands between 19 metres and 49 metres. One day while tweaking the trimmers on the chassis I unknowingly pulled down the medium waveband to cover part of what turned out to be the 160 metres amateur band. I heard a local amateur talking who was G3ATF - Larry in Ashford Middlesex and further to me finding out his QTH I sent him a letter which resulted in my first proper introduction to amateur radio in 1959. You can see a few entries from my My initial listening was on 160 metres with the chassis described above and then from an old EKCO broadcast radio in a bakelite case with the trimmers tweaked to pull the medium wave down, this was replaced some twelve months later having sold my prized train set with an AR88D which at that time was the dogs proverbials. Soon after I received an invite from another local amateur, G3JUL who gave up much of his time to coach me in the art of good operating and later on with RAE and CW practise. Also working at the same place as me was Colin G3MOT (now G3TA) who gave me CW practice everyday during the lunchbreaks. to be continued...... In the meantime this is an awful picture of me (no you can't have the red shirt). This was taken when I had an Audi A4 and you can see the IC706 mounted to the right of the steering wheel. if you need a QSL card take a look at http://www.eqsl.org, sign up and I will respond when I get the automatic e-mail requesting a card.
picture courtesy of G0VCL has lots of interesting stuff on his website, take a look now...
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