Beginnings. Well, ok, I've decided to start a blog on radio. I'm a ham - an amateur. I like talking to people on the other side of the world using fairly minimal kit - and no wires beyond those in my garden. My main interests don't involve using th emic - the mic is too easy. I particularly enjoy weak signal DX - Joe Taylor's products figure very highly in my "used" software, particularly WSPR and JT65 - though I use the JT65-HF flavour: his protocol, someone else's code.