Hi my name is William and I have been interested in radios for quite some time , in the early 80,s I began working on radios on CB radio and after a few years and a couple of house changes never put antennas and radio up again until recently as 2016 when i joined my local radio club The Mid Ulster ARC and sat my foundation licence and got my callsign as MI6WMN ,and in 2018 i sat my intermediate and now have the callsign 2I0WMN , at moment looking through the books to prepair to sit my Full call exam , my station has now grow somewhat and i have 3 or 4 handheld radios for VHF/ UHF  and  0ne for  DMR  radio Retevis RT3 .Also i have my mobile rig ( Yaesu FT 1900 ) for 2M / 70cm and and my base radio at the moment is my Icom IC746 running into a Double bazooka wire dipole and my home brew wire loop antenna for 6M to 40M Bands , hope to hear ou on the air soon 73