Biography

greetings !
first licence in 1976 and have kept vk3zzc ever since
retired after 40 years work in electrical and electronic and communication engineering.
last 20 years as network engineer at Monash University Australia, best university on earth !

early ham years was VHF and UHF exclusively. Was given an elderly IC730 by a friend and is now fully restored and active on all HF bands using FT8 digital mode exclusively
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Voice modes and other baseband audio signals are denied to me due to extremely high local noise from all my neighbours digital devices. Please forgive me if you have been hearing my modest 20 Watt signal and tried to reply without success. My high local noise level is to blame. I am also constrained by lack of good antennas due to domestic reasons.

Favourite bands are upper HF, current best band is 30 meters at sunrise.
I do try 40 meters and lower with mediocre results due to lack of good antennas.

Favourite ham activity is restoration of vintage Hewlett Packard test equipment and
construction of test and measurement equipment and FT8.

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

a very elderly IC-730 that outputs 25 Watts on a good day
a very cantankerous TS-670 4 band with a massive 5 watts

computers salvaged from dumpsters for doing the FT8 decoding.

antennas are a not very long , long wire, a self standing 6 meter vertical and a groundlplane for 10 meters which is loaded up with a nice ATU to barely work down to 17 meters ! not very nice at all !