Welcome to the Mike's Radios and Electronics web site.

This site is intended to provide information to people with similar interests to me.

My interest is in radios and technology particularly from Australian but also other countries. I collect communication and electronic related technology from the 19th and early 20th centuries, valve radios from the 1920s and transistor radios up to the mid 1980s.

I began fiddling with valve radios in my early teen years and before that was encouraged by my dad who was a communications officer in the R.A.N.

My enthusiasm for electronics and radio as a hobby lead to an interest in computers when they became available to the consumer market in the early 1980s. I have been involved with computers and computers in education since then.

I am a retired primary school teacher, and am now self-employed managing the information and communication technologies (ICTs) in some Queensland schools.