VK3UDC Colin's AR Home Page

My interest in radio started at about age 5 when the local radio shop burn't down. In 1938. I received a crystal set in the shape of felix the cat for my birthday. The tail tuned the stations in - the paw held the crystal and the whiskers primed the crystal as a detector to optimum. I used to go to sleep each night listening to Radio Rastus.
It even ran a horn loud speaker by my 6 th birthday. I was wrapped.
When War broke out I was shot off to a boarding school with Radio Rastus and all my fellow boarders started a Radio Club.
I liked rowing better than study - and I was hoisted out of boarding school at leaving certificate stage to join the first Trainee Tech course run by the Department of Civil Aviation. It was magic and it was topped of by a stint as a National Service man at the RAAF Radio School Ballarat.

I came to Amateur Radio after years loving experimenting with solid state devices.
I even owned a couple of patents that royalties purchased me a mazda Station wagon.
Bill Gronow VK3WG a Member of MDRC asked would I mind driving him to Club, and in particular to the Old timer's luncheons.
He said `I wouldn't be interested in AR as I wasn't a talker'.
We are all allowed one mistake.
At this stage of my life there is nothing quite like it especially when there is a bit about experimenting with electronics tossed in.
My yen to get back to experimenting is growing. I want to experiment with electronic aids to water divining and an electronic means to quantatively measure Tinnitus and then the potential for success of various types of treatment presently given to Tinnitus sufferers.
Even Tinnitus is an electronic circuit not quite doing what we want it to do.

Presently I am tossing around ideas on how to build and install hf aerial/s. My roof is 50% aluminium and near salt water - prone to generate cross mod. But I'm thinking I'm missing out on lots just thinking.
Where's the guy that says Radio Amateurs are hams(?) or that our interests aren't scientific?

Update 23/08/2006 18:50