Biography

Licensed in 1969 as G8CJY , mainly interested in VHF/UHF/SHF bands built most of my old kit in those days .

Member of North Liverpool radio club and contest group before moving south to Camberley in Surrey . Formed Hillbilly contest group , winning a number of trophies including VHF National Field Day .

Licensed as G4HWA in 1979 moved from Camberley to Horton near Northampton , UK.

Joined Parallel Lines Contest Group got very involved and operated the 23cm station , we won many VHF Field Day and VHF-SHF contests from our site in Dover and continue to use that site for various VHF and UHF contests.

Moved to present QTH in 2003 fitting 2m/70cm and 23 cm antennas in 2003.

Been using Windom for LF bands since 2014 , recently added Innovantenna XR6 6 band Yaagi. Onwards and Upwards as they say with the Icom 7610 transceiver.

Hope to catch you on the bands sometime.

Equipment

Icom 970H 2M ,70CM and 23cm . 400 watts on all bands via Amplifiers

9 ele Vargarda Yagi on 2M

19 ele Cargada Yagi on 70cms

55 ele Tonna Yagi on 23cms

Icom 7610 160m -6m , 400 watts on 160-10m .TL 922 Amplifier

Windom Antenna on 160/80/40m

Innovantennaas XR6 on 20/17/15/12/10 and 6m.

ID 5100 on 2/70cms D star .Diamond Vertical on 2/70 and 6m.