Biography

I was first licensed in June 1980
I took the Radio Amateurs Exam at The City of Bath Technical College
and later took B.Tech Electronics Level II at South Bristol Technical College

I also took a short course at the Bristol Brunel Academy making and designing PCBs

I worked for Securicor Radiocomms formerly Securicor PMR for about 30 years.

In Dec 2016 we moved from Radstock near Bath to Paignton, Devon
Having been off the air for many years I have recently taken up the hobby again

Station is located 140m (460ft) ASL overlooking Torbay. Grid Square IO80fk

Lat 50.26.59 N

Long 3.34.58 W

Oct 2017 Joined The Torbay Amateur Radio Society

http://www.torbayars.org.uk/NewTars/index.shtml

Weather

My Weather Station Is a Watson 8686 (HP2550 clone)
This sends the data to Weather Underground, Weathercloud, Twitter & The Met Office WOW Website,

https://www.wunderground.com/personal-weather-station/dashboard?ID=ITORQUAY25
https://wow.metoffice.gov.uk/weather/view?siteID=24615248
https://app.weathercloud.net/d5762897025#current

Roy

Equipment

Equipment = Yaesu FTM400DE(XDR) 2m & 70cm C4FM System Fusion & Wires X

Antenna = Diamond X50 Dual Band Collinear.

Equipment = Uniden UBC785XLT mainly used for monitoring the marine channels

Antenna = E Antenna EA270J Dual Band 2m & 70cm J-Pole

Baofeng GT-3TP Handheld

SDR Play RSP1A