G’day guys, I finally took the steps to become an Amateur Radio Operator around 18 months ago.
The story is that I first got interested when I was around 16 years old back in the old CB days, and discovered a neighbour who was a Ham. Back in those days there was the morse code requirements to get a licence, and I never had the interest in learning morse, so never got any further than the interest.
A couple of years back I heard that the morse requirement was dropped, which then got me interested enough to go out and get my Foundation licence. Within the next 12 months I upgraded to my Advanced Licence (full call), so now I am VK4BLP.
As you know, I’m down in the South East corner of Queensland, which on a map is just north of the most easterly point of Australia.