In my blog entry from August 2015 g8yph.blogspot.com/2015/08/logbooks-and-logging-in-uk.html I posed the question to myself "I wonder when the logbook will be completed". Well the day has come and it was filled by the station RX1CV Sergo in Russia at 0929UTC on April 1st 2016.
This was almost 36 years after I started it as a teenager back in October 1980.
The first contact was Fred G8TLB who is now G4TJU a few minutes after I received the license through the post on October 4th 1980. I remember that first QSO as it was a nervous time taking the steps for the initial time speaking on air. I'm sure everybody has gone through that.
There are lots of gaps in my logbook, sometimes years without operating, others were exclusively logged electronically when operating on packet radio. Remember that? I'm not sure it still exists. Most of the off times were due to changes in circumstances, job commitments, family commitments, changes in lifestyle where I didn't have time for the hobby.
And here were are so many years later with a brand new blank logbook.
Hopefully it won't take as long to fill logbook #2!......
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