Christian Radio Project

Hello and '73
I have been doing this for more than 10 years now, and boy, what a hobby it is!  My fascination with Radio
started when I was in the 3rd grade and we were on a field trip to the local library to get "book report" books.  I hated book reports more than anything, so while all my classmates were looking in the fiction or novel section, I wandered into the science section, and there it was, a book called "Experiments with Electricity".  I was immediately hooked and soon thereafter purchased a drycell battery and some wire and began my adventure.  That birthday, I talked my parents into buying me a 200-in-One Electronics project kit from Radio Shack. I was most enamored by the "crystal radio" projects as well as the primitive but effective "AM Broadcast Station" project where you assembe a simple 1-transistor AM transmitter.  From there the fascination only grew.  A year later I found myself talking my parents into getting me a used Realistic DX-200 HF reciever for my birthday.  Later on, I began purchasing CB radio equipment from garage sales.  I can still remember the day that I made my first contact with someone about a mile away using a simple coathanger antenna and a nintendo power pack on an old 23 channel CB.  Needless to say, I had a LOT MORE to learn about radio, and gee I learned it quick  (if you consider my life up until now to be quick!)  I got my first HAM license in 1995 and purchased my first handheld VHF 2m radio, one that many serious hams may remember, the Kenwood TH-25AT.
Since then  I have been growing from there!  I am still a HAM, but notquite as active as before.  As we all know, MARRIAGE will do that to a  person, however, I will NEVER quit being a HAM Operator!