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Ever since early childhood, Miroslav has been interested in technical things, radio in particular. To him, it represented a large wooden box with a shining radio scale, large buttons and keys, and a magic eye indicating the average level of the signal received. Different music or a completely unintelligible foreign language came from the speaker. This box fascinated him to the point that he desperately wanted to understand how it worked.

At the age of ten, he constructed his first simple detector for receiving the AM signal of a local MW transmitter in Domžale. He connected the middle headphone jack to a gutter that acted as an antenna, and he was able to listen to the radio.

At the age of fourteen (1974), Miroslav enrolled in an amateur radio operator course and acquired the necessary knowledge to be able to establish radio connections with the whole world on his own. In addition to theoretical and practical training, the course also covered techniques. The course participants were given a kit to assemble the OT-2 receiver, developed by the course mentor, Mr Franci Mermal (S51RM). Since, in addition to the basic tools, Miroslav also had a soldering iron and a universal instrument (bought by his father), he was able to assemble this receiver at home. He still remembers how the mentor commented on his deficient sense of aesthetics: “It looks as if the Bistrica River has piled it up.” Nevertheless, the receiver worked impeccably. At the age of fifteen, Miroslav successfully completed all the radio amateur exams. He was always interested in proper engineering and not just establishing connections, so he put together his first radio station using an oscilloscope, which had also been bought by his great supporter, father Janko. Because he was under age, he was not assigned his own call sign (later S51KM), which is a condition for establishing connections from home; therefore, he lent his first station to a colleague, who managed to establish a connection with a correspondent more than 3000 km away.

In 1983, he became employed in the company ISKRA Elektro zveze in Ljubljana in the maintenance & repair department for professional radio stations, and he continued to develop and build “his own” radio stations with great joy and enthusiasm. As radio devices at the time were obsolete in terms of development, he relied on foreign literature and good materials in making a duplex radio device acting as a repeater. To this repeater he connected an interface, through which a connection could be established to a telephone network and telephone calls made using a radio station (he had to use a DTMF keypad microphone).

The “mobile phone” was already a reality for Miroslav at that time!

At the time, ISKRA was working on quite solid TR40 and PTR-100 radio devices, for which Miroslav developed a complete family of accessories for 5-tone selective calls and CTCSS decoders/encoders (for the PTR-100 model in SMD technology). In 1988, he received the Innovation Award of the Municipality of Ljubljana-Šiška for these products. Miroslav thus proved his exceptional abilities, and ISKRA set up a department for him, called Applied Development. In 1992, he was referred to a 10-week training course at the company RACAL in the United Kingdom, where he was trained to service devices that the Republic of Slovenia had bought before becoming independent and used during the war. Until 1994, he had been servicing RACAL’s radio stations at ISKRA and his proposals contributed to ISKRA being sent these devices for servicing directly from RACAL subsidiaries from all over the world.

At the end of 1994, Miroslav decided to pursue an independent path. From the very beginning, he was aware that only hard work bears fruit. He believed that he would only succeed if he offered customers the best services and top quality at an affordable price.