I must admit, for the past decade or so I pretty much lost my interest in ham radio and have forgotten how enjoyable a nice QSO can be. Over the past few days however the ol' radio bug seems to have bitten me again and as a result I have done more radio operation than I have over the past decade or so. Pretty much all of it so far has been on UHF /7 0 cm via the local repeaters using hand held over which I have had some enjoyable chats. Yep there is still life out there on VHF and UHF at least in this area. The upshot to all this is now that I am once again becoming radio active I am also feeling the urge to jump back on to HF as well.