I Originate from Coventry, moved up North to warrington in 2000, met my partner through a drum and bugle corps, and moved up four weeks later. My parents where avid CB'rs back in the 80's-83, and this is where i was first introduced into radio, (my father being chairman of the local breakers club) he then sat his RAB in 83-84 and became a radio ham, G6KHA. In the late 80's my father joined coventry raynet. { I also joined as a non radio operator}. From the begining of the 90's till recently i had no involvement in radio, and it was'nt until we visited my parents at christmas back in 2004 that he had picked up his hobby again. so I decided to get my licence and didn't tell him as i wanted to suprise him and hence he was suprised, infact rather pleased. and although he doesn't get to hear many people down in Coventry he looks forward to visiting warrington. you can find me as I monitor 145.500mhz most evenings and work local friends regularly on 144.525mhz. I enjoy a rag chew but also like to work SSTV (analogue), packet, psk31 and RTTY one day :-) I work 2M and HF bands when they are open. I am a QRP station running 5W max on the hf bands and 12W max on the 2m band. I have an FT-817nd supported by a heathkit 2m linear amplifier. My antennas are a Watson 50 co-linear and the hf a g5rv half. I am a member of the Warrington Amatuer Radio Club and attend most tuesdays.