It was December 1999 when I received my Technician Class Ham Radio license. It wasn’t until July of 2004 that I bought my first radio, a Kenwood TH-G71A hand held. I still remember when I was about 10 years old and my mom told me I should get a ham radio license even though she didn’t even know exactly what it was; She only knew it was like the Citizens Band radios. She suggested this because being quite a geek I was interested in two major things between the age of 5 and 10 — weather and radio communications. Watchings severe weather events and listening to radio communications of all kinds is still my favorite thing to do.
So why the post title? Well, I realized that my license will expire in just 2 years and although it’s as simple as filling out a form online to renew it for a 10 year period, I just thought this would be a great time to upgrade. I’ll be going for the General Class license and hopefully I can talk some friends into getting their license so I’ll actually have some interesting things to talk about on the radio. My nephew is almost 6 years old and I’m hoping that sometime in the near future I can begin teaching him about ham radio. So…I’ll probably write some geeky and technical stuff here over the next year as I study.
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