Biography

Licensed in May 1969 and active on 2 m and 70 cm as a fixed station until 1980

Family etc then ate up time so activity was 2 m and 70 cm mobile only until 2004 when fixed station operation again became possible.

Main interest is FT8 on all bands.

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

Main rigs are a TS2000E and an IC7300.
On HF I use a trapped inverted L fed at the far end fed by a SEM Z Match on the lower bands and an SG autotuner above 7 MHz.
On 4m a halo
On 6 M a 3-element Yagi up at about 6m, which seems to work well when the band is open.
On 2m and 70 cm a collinear, however the QTH is very poor for VHF and UHF so this is normally hooked up to a FT-8800 to access the local repeaters.

On receive a Winradio G31DDC, an Icom PCR1000, an AOR2002 (mainly used for airband), a JIL SX400 (with all downconverters, HF upconverter and antenna switch) an RTL dongle for general work and an RTL dongle for 1090 MHz Mode S