An Amateur Radio Operator

I will never forget the time when I became an Amateur Radio Operator.
It all began on Saturday June 23 1993, when I wrote the exam for my Basic Qualification license. I received 70% out of one hundred,and I got it on the first try.It took twenty-one months of hard challeging studying but it paid off.Soon after recieving my license in the mail,I purchased my first radio. A Yaesu FT2400 2 Meter mobile Transciever.I made over 50 contacts on it.
Then came the fall of 1994, the year I began to study for my 5 words Morse Code. Trying to learn the alphabet in CW was a challenge at times but I got it about 18 months of listening to di-da-di-da over and over again every day for those eighteen months. I took the test in November 1995 and I just passed it.Before the excitement wore off, I started studying for my 12 words Morse Code. It didn't take as long to get it,about 11 months after I began studying.I had to wait a month for both my 5 and 12 words Morse Code licenses to come. During that time,I purchased my first HF radio and built two antennas.
In 1997 I sold both my HF rig and antennas in hopes of someday affording an even better rig. That day has not come yet. I still have my 2 Meter radio although it's not the Yaesu I started with. The one I have now, I've not used much lately due to other interests. Oh yes one more thing I forgot to mention. My call sign is VE3-VQX.