Biography

Mostly a contester than a rag-chewer and only recently getting back into the hobby after making over 500,000 QSO's from ZC4 and several World firsts in various contests. Having then achieved my goals, I sold the rig and took up photography and astrophotography.

Recently however, the bug has returned and I am mostly contesting on 10M and hope also to play on 6M band condx permitting

I will only ever be low power as I enjoy the challenge.

I do dabble with FT4 and FT8 on 10M when not contesting.

On a further note, I am still getting requests for "URGENT" QSL cards from my ZC4 operation that was over 20 years ago. I no longer issue QSL cards although these do count for the ZC4 award that I still manage.

My logbook is on QRZ.com and LOTW.

Steve
G4KIV G1G ZC4BS ZC40BS ZC4BBS ZC4ESB ZC40ESB N5ZFR ZD8SB (ex G6M)

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

Rigs: Yaesu FT2000, Elad FDM-DUO
Antennas: eAntenna 2850MOX, Prosistel PST1524TV, Cobwebb (original), Inverted L (34m in NNW/SSE direction) - additional antennas in progress !
Interfaces: MicroHam Digi Keyer II and Alpha Delta 4B antenna switch
Contesting: Wintest (main), N1MM and SD as backup - now dropped Writelog as no response to tickets