The following information is a brief overview of Brian Flack's leisure interests.    These details may or may not be relevant to the professional work of the company but they are provided for the benefit of those of our clients who feel that such information helps them to gain an insight to the character and philosophy of their supplier.

Personal Interests:

My long-standing interest in amateur radio is demonstrated by the fact that I joined the Radio Society of Great Britain (http://www.rsgb.org/) in 1954, while still at school and have been actively involved in the hobby ever since. My call signs are G4AMP in the UK and ON9CUK in Belgium. I operate on the 2m and HF bands.   The main purpose of amateur radio is to assist the individual with an understanding of the technology of radio communications.   Consequently, the majority of radio amateurs are actually professionals in a related field. (Electronics research was the field in which I started my career, although I subsequently moved into sales and marketing.) Most amateurs construct some of their own equipment and/or antennas and gain considerable enjoyment from the opportunity to talk freely to other radio enthusiasts around the world.  Many radio amateurs have also played an active part in the interception of emergency calls from people in various forms of distress, from shipwrecks to military invasions. One of my claims to fame is an exchange of communications with radio amateur Captain Kurt Carlsen (W2ZXM/MM) of the Flying Enterprise, a cargo ship that famously sank off the SW coast of England in 1952.

Genealogy

My wife, Audrey, and I have been tracing our respective family histories for several years now and we have authenticated records going back to the 1700's.   It is evidently quite difficult to follow this UK-based interest from Belgium but the Internet does provide a substantial amount of assistance, through genealogy newsgroups or various genealogical web sites.

Our children

We have two daughters and a son and they all spent the latter part of their educational years in Belgium.   We also have four grandchildren.