Biography

Hi and thank you for visiting my QRZ page.Class A amateur radio since 1990.

Equipment: Yaesu FT 1000MP HF transceiver, Yaesu FT 747 HF as my mobile. Antennas: All low cost home builds! 15 m indoor Dipole. A half wave 40/20M trap dipole, a wide band vertical 80 - 10M works all on bands without tuner. And a 20M magnetic loop. This antenna sits on ground level and my radio room is 5 meters above the loop!!

Mag loop capacitor is tuned by an RC servo motor. Capacitor is a 280mm RG58 coax (19Pf) and a home made variable capacitor of 2-6Pf. Servo is driven by a cheap servo tester (£4 ebay) Loop is made from 28mm copper tube and small loop is a 4 core shielded cable. All cores and shield are soldered as single cable and direct fed from SO239. I have had 5x9 reports while on QRP (1.8 ~ 2.0 watts) from Italy and Bulgaria. Antenna sits at 500mm above ground.

Equipment

FT 1000MP HF transceiver
FT 747 HF transceiver (29 years since purchased)
20M / 40m trapped halve wave dipole antenna
15M dipole antenna
20M fixed resonance magnetic loop (to be a 40M/ 20M soon)
HF vertical broad band antenna. 10 - 80M without tuner, (bit noisy)


Other interests:

Model RC airplanes

Building telescopes

Classic vehicles