About Us
The History of Our Station
As a scanner-head from LONG ago (late '60s), I got interested in radio traffic from the local public service. Mom had gotten me an AM-FM VHF receiver. If I tuned the radio just right, I could hear city/county police, and city and county fire departments. I was hooked. I then got a Midland AM-FM Shortwave receiver, and the it got worse I could listen to the world then, wondering what they were saying, I heard stations from around the globe. In the 1970s I was playing around with some code, but never went very far. Then came CB, I managed to build a small station. Played with that about 8 years till the language got to be too much, I got rid of it all. I got interested in amateur radio then, started trying to learn the code winch wasn't too bad. I lost interest due to family and friends. I got interested again in the mid 1980s, but again, no luck.
I got interested again when the "No-Code" license came out(YES for a while I was one "of them"). Back when you had to WAIT on snail-mail to find out your call. Oct -31-1991 is when I received my notification. I studied and earned 5 WPM making me a Tech-Plus within a year. I kept studying the code, but couldn't break the 10 WPM level (so close the the 13 required for general).. Eventually ALL code was dropped and I First licensed in 1991 as KD4GNX Tech-Plus in Sept 1992, Upgraded to General in Mar 2011, upgraded to Extra in June 2016, the applied for a vanity call of AJ1W which I got and still hold.