i have always been interested in radio since hearing a radio ham as a boy on an old radio my parents owned.later in life i bought a cb radio it was a president Lincoln i was truly hooked. i passed my radio exam in 1992 and the morse test a year later at the moment i am running a icom 706 mk 2g after owning a kenwood ts 450s also running a challenger 1kw amp. antenna at this moment is a cushcraft t7 dipole at a height of 10 meters.