Greatings

Hello all thank you for dropping by,
My Name is Stephen. I am from London United Kingdom and now life in Lawrenceville Georgia with my wonderful wife and a young Daughter of four.
I am a FCC Licensed Amateur Radio(Ham) in the USA with the call K4STA. I also hold a UK Licence G0OMM. 
At the age of 12 I joined the sea cadet corps.

I was on the Ship H.M.S. Belfast Moored on the River Thames in London.

We did a tour of the ship when we got to the wireless bridge on the ship I remember this guy talking on the radio (later found out he was a ham) I forget his call this was back in late 1976.

I was really impressed with this, later I learned radio communication and did learn Morse at 13.

The years went by and at 18 did buy my 1^stCB as then they had just became legal in the UK.I was not happy with this and sorry to say I did buy a SSB CB that are Illegal in the UK.

I was closed down by those very nice men from the home office and so from 1983 until 1988 when I got the bug for radio again wanted to do it legal so I went night classes and took the Radio Amateur Exam (RAE) and passed and was later in 1989 issued with what was then a B Class license of G7FOL.

I carried on with this Call sign until December 1990 when I took and passed my 12WPM Morse test then I was issued with a full A Class in January 1991 as G0OMM.

Later in 1992 I was heavily into Packet Radio and ran a BBS call GB7OMM.

Then in 2000 I moved to where I am now and with moving and setting up home the hobby took to the back seat until about September 2009, I was talking to a guy at work that wanted to became a ham and that got me wanting to get back in and so I took the exam on October 19^thand passed and was issued with my call of KJ4PXH.

I was surprised how rusty I have become.

I Took and passed my General Classon 11/07/09.

As of today (04/17/2011) i sat and passed my Extra Class.

5/10/11 New Vanity Call K4STA

73 De Steve K4STA

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