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About me
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In 1976, I got my first radio, a handheld AM radio with only four channels. I used it to talk with a friend who lived 250 meters away. My second radio was a Samdo 700 AM CB radio, which I still have. :-) The whole neighborhood could hear me on their televisions or radios.
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In 1980, CB radio was legalized, and we were allowed to use 0.5W in FM mode. CB radio became the social media of the 1980s. Nearly every building had an antenna.
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In the early 1980s, propagation was very strong, and I bought my first CB radio with SSB and a 150-watt amplifier. It was a lot of fun, and I made my first worldwide QSOs.
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This was the start of the Ham Radio Hobby. My first callsign was PD1AMS - VHF and UHF
Later I passed my technical exame and requested the callsign PE4IR. I'm still using this callsign today. John |