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Not sure if you are asking Rob or myself.

But here is my story.
At the age of 11 I was really into short wave. I had got an old receiver (Hallicrafters). From time to time it would start acking up so I would take it apart and fiddle around with it. I had an uncle that was into tv repair. So he helped with the parts.

Most kids my age were out playing ball and getting into whatever. Not me. I stay after school reading books and at the public library. I started getting magazines from clippings at the barbor shop. Before long my older cousins were asking me to hook up their 8 tracks in the cars.

I later picked up a Johnson 9 channel mobile radio from a guy in town. I made my antenna and used a car battery to power the rig. Radio shack came out with a cheap 1/4 wave ground plane. So I got one. Oh, There used to be a super market in town called Big Star. It was at a strip mall in town. We lived on a farm so we only went to the grocery store 1 to 2 times a month. We grew and raised most of what we needed. There was a Radio Shack there. Can not tell you the amount of time I spent in that place. Some times Mom would be at the mall for 3 to 4 hours. The whole time I was in Radio Shack.

Fast forward to 1980. I opened a TV/Radio shop in a small town. Ran it for years. Then later I closed it and a friend and I opened a cb shop. He past away 7 years ago so I closed the shop. Spent the free time playing with ham radio. 2 years ago I started working on ham equipment for the public. The a few months later got back into cb repair.

So thats my story.

<blockquote data-quote="Radio Tech" data-source="post: 163689" data-attributes="member: 7873">Not sure if you are asking Rob or myself.But here is my story.At the age of 11 I was really into short wave. I had got an old receiver (Hallicrafters). From time to time it would start acking up so I would take it apart and fiddle around with it. I had an uncle that was into tv repair. So he helped with the parts.Most kids my age were out playing ball and getting into whatever. Not me. I stay after school reading books and at the public library. I started getting magazines from clippings at the barbor shop. Before long my older cousins were asking me to hook up their 8 tracks in the cars.I later picked up a Johnson 9 channel mobile radio from a guy in town. I made my antenna and used a car battery to power the rig. Radio shack came out with a cheap 1/4 wave ground plane. So I got one. Oh, There used to be a super market in town called Big Star. It was at a strip mall in town. We lived on a farm so we only went to the grocery store 1 to 2 times a month. We grew and raised most of what we needed. There was a Radio Shack there. Can not tell you the amount of time I spent in that place. Some times Mom would be at the mall for 3 to 4 hours. The whole time I was in Radio Shack.Fast forward to 1980. I opened a TV/Radio shop in a small town. Ran it for years. Then later I closed it and a friend and I opened a cb shop. He past away 7 years ago so I closed the shop. Spent the free time playing with ham radio. 2 years ago I started working on ham equipment for the public. The a few months later got back into cb repair.So thats my story.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Radio Tech, post: 163689, member: 7873"] Not sure if you are asking Rob or myself. But here is my story. At the age of 11 I was really into short wave. I had got an old receiver (Hallicrafters). From time to time it would start acking up so I would take it apart and fiddle around with it. I had an uncle that was into tv repair. So he helped with the parts. Most kids my age were out playing ball and getting into whatever. Not me. I stay after school reading books and at the public library. I started getting magazines from clippings at the barbor shop. Before long my older cousins were asking me to hook up their 8 tracks in the cars. I later picked up a Johnson 9 channel mobile radio from a guy in town. I made my antenna and used a car battery to power the rig. Radio shack came out with a cheap 1/4 wave ground plane. So I got one. Oh, There used to be a super market in town called Big Star. It was at a strip mall in town. We lived on a farm so we only went to the grocery store 1 to 2 times a month. We grew and raised most of what we needed. There was a Radio Shack there. Can not tell you the amount of time I spent in that place. Some times Mom would be at the mall for 3 to 4 hours. The whole time I was in Radio Shack. Fast forward to 1980. I opened a TV/Radio shop in a small town. Ran it for years. Then later I closed it and a friend and I opened a cb shop. He past away 7 years ago so I closed the shop. Spent the free time playing with ham radio. 2 years ago I started working on ham equipment for the public. The a few months later got back into cb repair. So thats my story. [/QUOTE]

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