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Former. KD5DKC "No-Code" Technician.
License expired in 2008. (Hey, it too me 11 years to renew my CHL, and that's something I'm seriously interested in.)
I was driving a truck and using CB radio every day. I wanted to know more about it. Most of what I heard from CB techs sounded more like voodoo than science. (I have just enough basic electronics experience to tell when someone's talking about something they know little about. There seem to be a lot of them working in CB shops.)
So I started reading about amateur radio to get a better idea of what was going on. Mostly read the Gordon West books from Radio Shack. By the time I read a bunch of this stuff I decided I might as well go take the test. So I got my license, but I've never once been on the air. I listened on the 2m band occasionally on my scanner.