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[B]Who else has joined up the wonderful world of Ham Radio?

Oh wow, another radio ham!! I got my ZS licence (callsign is ZS2NU) in South Africa in 1981, and used to very active on 2 meters and HF at one stage. Although I have not been on the air for absolutely ages I have retained my licence. Don't have any equipement with me in the UK yet - what I have left is with my brother Leslie (ZS2CD) in East London (SA). I doubt if I will get back onto HF (too much hassle with antennae etc), but would love to be set up again sometime on 2 metres. I was just thinking about this the other day, and wondering to what extent computers, and options such as MSN Messenger, have affected things on the HF bands. It is so much easier to communicate with my family via MSN now. Do you know if there are more women on the bands these days?? When I got my licence I was a rare species ... an endangered species ... on the air!! :haha: :haha:

There are a few about....got my licence back in '81 too though never bothered with the morse as work and interest were in VHF /UHF. Both my wife and I are licenced, BJ got her call back in '94 I think it was....
We are both licenced in the UK but not that active. VHF wise there are a number of repeaters around but 70cm seems to be more popular than 2. The 4m band (70MHz) has also quite a following.
You must get up on HF here. The local stuff is all on 40/80 but with dipoles for 10, 15, 20 and WARC 17 and 12 m bands there is a lot of DX to be had...

I am limited to space and the only way I will get up on 40/80 is going to be with a vertical, I'm also not prepared to go that route and battle with radials untill I have our own proprty, then we will set up properly....who knows we may hook up some time

73
de G1BND