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I started in radio by buying a CB in the early 1990s, still in school and only just in secondary school I became hooked on all things radio. Addicted to computers since the age of 5 with a Sir Alan special aka Amstrad CPC 464 my life has been an education in anything that’s electronic or mechanical.

In the mid 1990s I complete with the help of some local CB’ers turned Hams the NRAE exam at around the age of 14. Restricted to UHF I experimented with different antennas, and probably used more power than I should have, still what’s the odd rule if it’s not meant to be broken.
Being restricted to UHF after a little while did kill my interest in Radio, and my time was devoted to Computers instead.

I’ve been there and done it with a wide range of different computer systems. As a kid I had a garage full of networked 386 and 486 systems over 10Base2. Red Hat Linux I used to like using, and I have to admit I was a very early adopter of Windows NT. What all those boxers were doing I don’t really know, I remember thinking at the time they didn’t exactly do anything, but as a kid having your school worked stored over 10 PC’s using SMB was a bit of silly fun. In primary school after all I took my own printer to school as I didn’t feel their schools printers were worthy of my work going through them lol.

Things progressed, blah de blah and in 2009 probably 9 years after I last used Amateur radio I decided to get my license back. Unfortunately I cannot run anything other than UHF (the irony) from home because of antenna restrictions of the building I live in, so I’ve setup a home D-Star system and in my little used Range Rover I’ve got what you might call a comprehensive setup.