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My
interest in radio began way back in 1981 from AM CB radio,
I met quite a few characters in them days and not least Jimmy
Jam Jar who introduced me to SW listening on his old Lowe
SRX30 HF receiver. I remember the joy I used to get from tuning
around the bands trying to make out what the hell all the
whistles and noises where, hearing far off stations and wishing
that I could communicate around the world. I had caught the
bug and in September of 1982 I signed up for and started my
G&G 765 course ,which ended sometime in 1983 when I took
the exam and passed with credits. I then applied for and received
my amateur licence B and I now had the station callsign G6YZI.
I was content with this for a year or so but, the noises and
whistles of HF beckoned and I started to learn my morse, I
must admit I found this very hard but finally all the hard
worked paid off when I passed my morse test at North Forelands
and received my class A licence and station callsign G0CXW
in 1985. My HF working never really took off as I lived in
a block of council flats
that had an old 60's communal pre-amp, working any HF band
resulted in all the TV's in the block getting interference,
the council did not want to know or help, so disillusioned
I lapsed my licence in 1989.
In
2006 I decided to renew my licence, which was far easier than
I expected as OFCOM are highly effecient and within 7 day's
of applying online I had my shiney new licence.
I
now own my own flat and I am experimenting with aerials in
the loft, I can run 100W without a problem on 20M and I am
now starting to get an interest in RTTY, SSTV and PSK31 the
future does look brighter.
Although
I have had this webspace for sometime the G0CXW section is
new (Sept 2006) and I will try an build on it gradually, hopefully
it will chart the rise of the station G0CXW eventualy talking
to those voices from over the globe and finding out what those
bloody noises are.
Good
Luck
Tom
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