So why are you not using radio no more phil. i got my callsign just before curryhell.
Well, this is totally OT, but it may amuse some : I got my licence at the age of 16 (that would be 1963), and joined the local Amateur Radio Society -- it had better remain namless, but it was in the vicinity of the Cray Valley .... I went along to meetings regularly, but over the course of six months or so discovered that the sole topic of conversation, and apparently the sole topic of interest, was amateur radio. And the more meetings I attended, the more boring I began to find the conversation. So, wanting to "get a life" as the modern idiom goes, I decided to quit, and I can't say I have ever looked back. I love my hobbies one and all (cycling, gardening, equestrianism, food and wine, curries, satellite television, computer typesetting, Greek palaeography, web programming, ...) but I don't want any one of them to take over my life to the exclusion of all else. But that was what seemed to happen to the members of **RS : just one interest, nothing outside, and (with a few notable exceptions), definitely not the sort of people you could invite to dinner (unless all the other guests were hams as well) !
** Phil.