Biography

My interest in radio stems back to my early school years where I built my first crystal set followed by 1 valve regenerative receiver and then my first valve broadcast band Superhet Receiver. I was first licenced in the late sixties and then moved to Ireland in 1973. I have been active on all bands ever since. My interests varied between VHF/UHF in the earlier years and then HF in the latter years.

I am very interested in home construction and conversion of commercial mobile sets for amateur usage. I am actively involved with our Local UHF repeater and VHF gateway on 4 metres.

I am now retired and enjoy more time with the hobby and there is very little that I have not tried at this point. I have recently tried SSTV and regularly transmit Digital modes both data and Speech. Unfortunately thre never seems to be enough hours in the day.

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

Yaesu FTDX5000MP
Icom IC-7200
Yaesu FT707
Kenwood TS-50
Icom IC-M700
Clansman PRC320

Antenna:

Vertical for 10 - 30 MHz
Inverted - L antenna for 160 - 40 metres