Biography

My QTH is in a small town called Westbury in the County of Wiltshire, about 19 km to the east of the City of Bath.

Locator: IO81VG

WAB: ST85

ASL: 383 Feet

Member of: RSGB (The Radio Society of Great Britain)

Member of: The Trowbridge and District Radio Amateur Club (TDARC)

Member: 8415 of the G-QRP

Member: 21190 of the SKCC

Member: 19525 of the FISTS

I enjoy operating CW (although a little rusty) Phone and the occasional venture into FT8. I also love project construction and trying my hand at some basic engineering.
I have successfully made several morse keys of various types including straight, single paddle, dual paddle, and most recently two copies of the Vibroplex. My claim to fame is the first Vibroplex copy I made, (I called the Virusperplexed bug) that appeared on the front page of the January 2021 RADCOM magazine. View Link: https://sites.google.com/site/hamradiog0vfs/projects/virusperplexed-key?authuser=0#h.u1s73duvg3j

Equipment

Station: Trio 7500, IC-290E, FT-818, IC7300, IC9700 Baofeng GT-3, Home-brew Sparkford 80m CW TRX, a Home-brew Chinese Super Rockmite 40m CW TRX, BITX40, and a Kit built QCX 20