Biography

Hi and thanks for looking me up. If we've had, or are having a QSO, thank you for the contact.

If you've looked up my contest call of G7H and ended up here, please ensure you have logged our contact correctly. If you send me a QSL card, please send it to G7H VIA G7SYW through the buro - thanks.

All QSO's are sent an electronic QSL via eQSL (AG), HRDLog, ClubLog, and LoTW. NO Paper QSL's please.

Way back, my experience as the local CB rig doctor began my path to taking the RAE and gaining my amateur licence in 1994.

My current QTH is in the small town close to Colchester in North Essex, England.

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

The main radio here is a Kenwood TS-2000. Due to not having much space to install HF antennas, my main antenna is a long wire fed via a remote ATU at the base, running diagonally across the back garden.

For 6m a horizontal halo type antenna is mounted on the gable end of the house, VHF/UHF uses a Diamond X300 co-linear antenna mounted on the long wire support pole.

I am active on FT8 and use a SignaLink USB interface for the digimodes. Although I started with a homebrew interface which used the PC internal soundcard, I found this to be slightly inconvenient when wanting to use the PC for my other audio interests.

A TYT UV MD-380 DMR handie radio being used with a MMDVM hotspot running Pi-Star is usually monitoring the HubNet or TG91 talkgroups.