I was very pleased to be invited to contribute to this special 70th anniversary issue of Practical Wireless, not only because writing for PW has represented a goodly slice of my life over the last half a century or more, but also because I feel that I have played a small a part in the continuation of the magazine through its several editors and devoted editorial teams over the years. I've been searching through copies of early PWs in an endeavour to locate my very first article within their pages but, sadly, it would seem that the vast majority of my early efforts are no longer with me, having either been lost or inadvertently disposed of during the processes of numerous QTH changes with my family since the end of the 1940s and into the early 1950s. I'm pretty sure, though, that I started to write for F. J. Camm's popular magazine not too long after the conclusion of the Second World War on my return to 'blighty' from Singapore, where I was working with a Special Communications Unit (SCU14), in one guise, to discover novel ways of arranging 807s for the best c.w. communication!
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