I got my amateur radio B licence G7HMD in 1990 and then past my morse test in 1993.
I got into amateur radio from CB (CB handle Mousetrap), I was a truck driver working the night shift for more years than I like to remember.
Anyway it's 1975 and I work for the Post Office and I get to drive HGV class one (always wanted to drive big trucks).
The CB in those days was very crowded with lots of wally's so a friend of mine said "why don't you become a radio ham" a blank look from me? the only radio ham I had heard of was the sketch by Tony Handcock
I borrowed a 2m handheld radio PMR set and for the next few months i listened to the 2m repeaters, mainly West London as that was nearst to my home.
As I have said I worked nights so going to college was out, the only way I could get to learn the Radio Amateur Exam was to take a home course, so I set too to study at home. When the time came to take the test I had to find a place to take it, so I went straight to the top , The City and Guilds in London, (only because no college would take me as I had not done the couse with them) much to my surprise I passed.

I got the callsign G7HMD and off I went up and down the highways and byways with my new radio and callsign chatting on the repeaters, GB3VA in the Vale of Aylesbury and GB3NA in Leeds just to name two, made lots of friends who would stay up half the night chatting to me helping to keep me awake om the motorways.
Well I was enjoying myself with my B licence but it was time to do the morse and get an A licence, so I taught myself morse code. It took me three try's to pass, I got the callsign of G0TVD now I could be let loose on the HF bands.
I was still driving and off I would go to Bristol or Leeds with a new Icom 706 MKII in the trick and 80m aerial on the roof, six months later I was off driving due to ill health, that my life up to the present ,medically retired but still on the radios and bird watching and geocaching.
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