Ham Radio and I

     This Blog site is just weeks old. Just when I'm about to upload and blog all about my amateur activities in the past years up to the present, another surprise came and received from the postman on December 29, 2017...      It  was the Japan Ladies Radio Society YL-OM DX Contest certificate of participation with a UNICEF Christmas card with it. Courtesy of Yukiko San (7K4TKB) DX Chairperson of the JLRS. For more on the JLRS please visit                  http://www.jarl.com/jlrs/                     DW3TRZ  YL-OM DX Contest CERTIFICATE to be completed in 10 years DW3TRZ on YL-CW Category A Very Nice Hand-made Gift Wall Ornament  Personalized w/ Callsign Registered mail with UNICEF X-mas card courtesy of Yukiko San 7K4TKB

         Season's Greetings received via e-mail from  The American Radio Relay League ( ARRL ) The national association for Amateur Radio in the US... http://www.arrl.org Thank you for your continued support of Amateur Radio and ARRL           I became a  member of the ARRL on August 31 of 2017, tru the great effort/assistance of Anne Dirkman (KC9YL) together with some Amazing Officers/Members of the Young Ladies Radio League (YLRL).  www.ylrl.org DW3TRZ ARRL Certificate of Membership                                                    

   I am affiliated with the Philippine Amateur Radio League Inc. (PARL Inc.) Club Station DX1L and a Regular Member of the Philippine Amateur Radio Association (PARA) .      PARA is the national member society representing the Philippines in the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) .   http://www.para.org.ph     DW3TRZ PARA ID OM Jojo DU1VHY - PARA COO

   My license band allocations are 40M, 15M and 10M on HF bands and 2M on VHF. I was a Technician class 2 decades ago, and am still a Technician class up to this date. For me, what I need is just a license to operate legally on HF bands. I don't think I have the time to conquer all the bands. I have other hobbies too, and I am contented and satisfied with these bands.            It is not the "Class of License" the amateur holds ,       but the "Class of the Amateur" that holds the license.     http://www.para.org.ph/docs/DU-Band-Plan-DW1ZCF.pdf

In January of 2014, an old amateur friend offered me his HF rig/antenna and encouraged me to try the hobby again. Only this time that I really had my FIRST TASTE OF DX ... and it was fun! I retook exam because license got expired for not renewing in 20+ years and amnesty to renew it was far more expensive. Luckily I passed at first retake.                                              

I was first introduced into the hobby early 1990s by friends active in radio communication engaged in public assistance particularly during disasters and natural calamities. In the year 1994 when I first took my amateur licensing exam and passed with my first amateur call of DU3TAZ. But never had a transmission on the HF bands then, no rigyet and my activity was mostly VHF-2M band operations only. Studies and work made me busy and so I did forgot all about the amateur radio thing for more than 2 decades. My Very First Radio Station License       

I would like to thank and acknowledge a DX friend Yukiko Maki (7K4TKB) of JAPAN, for featuring me in one of her blogs. Thus encouraging me to create a blog site of my own.   https://ameblo.jp/jlrsblog/entry-12327317629.html Yukiko San is my sponsor  in the Japan Ladies Radio Society (JLRS) as a DX member. http://www.jarl.com/jlrs