Biography

Licensed as G3SNT in Oct. 1963 at age 15 years.

Almost exclusively HF CW operation though a wide interest in data modes and have been interfacing radios with computing since the early 80's.

FIST'S No: 14581

Now retired from a career in Science Education and have more time to enjoy this predominant hobby in addition to Natural History, Photography, Astronomy and the inevitable Gardening. Hi!!

Still manage to play a regular game of Squash after some 37 years of this addiction to resultant endorphins!

I enjoy a fairly quiet location for HF working though the surrounding hills limit my VHF/UHF "takeoff" to the South East of my QTH.

My best wishes to all those fellow Hams I have worked to date and in the future.

Equipment

The Shack comprises currently of Icom transceivers with the first choice for CW going to my "trusty" IC 7400.

I also use a Flex 1500 which in tandem with a fast Quad core PC is excellent for CW ops. I use the Elad-S1 SDR receiver for general monitoring using a variety of software as well as the excellent supplied package. The shack has two fully working analogue/valved receivers, an AR88 and a Drake 2B with accompanying Q Multiplier. The latter is frankly "awesome" for CW reception. It's nostalgia from working National Field Day back in the early 1960's when they were revolutionary!

A Yaesu FT817 is used for portable and mobile working along with a good selection of monoband antennas.

Main station antennas are verticals for 40, 20, 15 and 10 metres and a dipole for 5MHz sometimes peaked through a Kenwood AT230 ATU.