About myself and my ham radio station, as you've landed on this page I guess you'd like to know more about me and my hobby. Well as I mentioned on the home page I have been a licensed radio amateur since 1977, and have been involved in many aspects of the hobby, from taking part in contest working and field days to being involved with RAYNET (the radio amateur emaergency network) for a number of years the hobby has given me much pleasure, I was born in Old Clee on the Cleethorpes, Grimsby border, my parents were both from Lincolnshire where most of my family still live, but I spent many years living in West Yorkshire, before finally managing to escape and come back to Lincolnshire. 2007. Work wise I started my working life as an electrical engineer mainly involved in industrial work, and CNC equipment before moving onto maintenance work at a large bottling plant, with 6 bottling lanes to maintain and repair it kept our small team of engineers very busy, during this time I also ran a mobile disco company in the evenings, I look back and don't know how!!,  after the plant re-located it became a natural progression for me to go back to college and study for a qualification in electronics, obtaing a degree in 1985 this was a four year course and very in depth but very enjoyable, and something I wished I'd donea long time before. On qualifying as an electronics engineer, I wondered what to put my new found knowledge to use in, it was all at the time when the home computer had really started to become popular, a suggestion from a friend gave me the ideal solution to my next move to open what was to become a very successful computer sales and repair business, and over the next 10 years it flourished, I also at this time got involved with the local hospital radio station and presented two shows a week there for many years. But all good things come to an end and following large commercial interest in computer sales and repairs by large companies,  a lot of the small retailers including myself sadly dropped out of the market, some but not many managed to survive the downturn for the smaller retailer, although that is now turning full circle and many small computer shops are springing back up I have since spent many happy years as a radio ham and in other radio projects getting involved with community radio from 2004 until very recently.