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Message: <blockquote data-quote="m0lsx" data-source="post: 155020" data-attributes="member: 29323">Good luck with the foundation.I have a full licence. <a href="http://www.qrz.com/db/M0LSX"" target="_blank">My QRZ page can be found at, http://www.qrz.com/db/M0LSX"</a>The closest I come to prepping is that I am a emergency radio network operator, so I am on call for local & national disasters where radio coms are required. To that end I have kites to lift antennas & solar recharging & other such kit to keep me on the air where ever I am.I have a portable radio set up in a ready to grab box & can be on air with local & international coms capability within 15 to 20 minutes.The classic bike is because I LOVE classic vehicles & the working radio on it is because I am a radio enthusiast who loves valve radios.Another part of the radio hobby I love is special event operating. I use my full licence to get a special GB callsign from Ofcom & then show people what radio is all about. There are numerous chances for doing this. Museums on the air, windmills on the air, Railways on the air etc etc. Plus the biggest Scout event JOTA. This is when over half a million scouts from over 100 countries talk to each other via radio thanks to Jamboree On The Air. I take my equipment to a scout hut or camp, build an antenna system for the weekend & then let the Scouts make contact with others including Scouts from around the world.  I also  offer the chance to take electronics or communication badges too.One of the JOTA's I was at, had a call from the guys on the Internation Space Station. <img src="data:image/gif;base64,R0lGODlhAQABAIAAAAAAAP///yH5BAEAAAAALAAAAAABAAEAAAIBRAA7" class="smilie smilie--sprite smilie--sprite8" alt=":D" title="Big Grin    :D" loading="lazy" data-shortname=":D" /> That is right the ISS called the Scouts, it was the middle of the night & they even sent our guys a picture via the radio link & all within thier 2 - 3 minute pass over us. And I will not mention Doppler Effect. At the 125th anniversary station for the Boys Brigade we chatted to two different guys as they drove across the Sahara Desert. They could not hear each other, but it showed the guys at the Boys Brigade  what we can do & grabbed their imagination.I have operated from a Church, a science museum, the footplate of a moving steam engine, a once secret RAF radar bunker & from within a emergency planning nuclear bunker. Among other places.I started my radio interest at school listening to domestic radios  & trying to find interesting new stations. At 15 I was introduced to electronics & amateur radio via the local tec collage & that led to me starting to build my own transmitters & running land based pirate radio stations back in the late 70's & early 80's. Radio is part of my DNA.</blockquote>

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