MY STORY SO FAR

My first memory of a radio nature is

When I was about 8 or 9 years old listening to radio Luxemburg on an evening in my bed with earphones, so my mother didn't know I was still awake.  Tuning up and down on my small radio because of the drifting signal from over seas, I didn't even know Luxemburg was a place !!

At age 11 in 1976 I went to stay with my aunt in Canada for a while, whilst there I was shown a CB radio in a pickup truck and then I was able to talk to the log truckers.

 I WAS HOOKED and it was not long before I had the DV-27 on a car wheel in the loft and a 23 channel am CB. 

In the late 70's when most everybody I knew on air took the amateur route, I didn't I knew I was not able to pass the RAE exam, so I got a rig with ssb and became a full blown 11 meter pirate, I spent the next 25 or so years calling CQ 11 and working the world, and a good number of the guys who had got a ham licence but still called on 11..... 

One afternoon in early 2001 I heard the back end of a qso, along the lines of a new ham licence called  foundation, so armed with this info my self and a good friend (M0TPS DAZ) made some enquiries, Eventually after a lot of surfing and question asking, we both booked our self's on the 2nd or 3rd  M3 foundation pilot course, we both passed and my first transmission on amateur radio was with the call M3PRV/P on 20 meters to a station in Svalbard 

Just over a year later Daz said the last ever City and Guilds RAE was coming up and he was going to book him self on at the local club, so I went along with him, we booked our places on the second to last  RAE , we passed Daz became M0TPS and I got M1PRV.

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