Biography

Hello dear radio friend. Many thanks for looking me up on QRZ.com

I was first licensed as G7AXN in 1988 and still hold that callsign but no longer use it. I upgraded to Class A/B as M5ADY in 1999, followed by my current Class A callsign shortly after.

I live approximately 15 miles north-west of the city of York in the beautiful conservation village of Helperby.

Locator: IO94ic WAB square: SE46

QSL via LoTW, QRZ.com, Clublog, eQSL

Currently only active on HF, 40m to 6m.

After being QRT for well over 10 years I came back to the hobby in 2018 and now enjoy it more than ever. Unfortunately, during a house move in 2015 all of my previous station logs were lost, so if I have worked you before via any of my callsigns and I don't acknowledge it please accept my apologies. I have re-built part of my old log by entering information from QSL cards received. Sadly, this only represents a fraction of the stations I've previously worked.

73's 

Russ


My other interests:

I live 100 metres from the River Swale and can often be found on the river bank fishing for barbel and chub. If I don’t catch anything, there’s a good chance of seeing kingfishers and otters. What better way to spend a few hours in the evening?

Equipment

Transceiver - Icom IC-7610

Microphone - Heil Pro 7-ic headset

Tuner - MFJ-962D (bought as a non-working item and repaired)

Amplifier - Homebrew 1KW based on an MRF1K50H LDMOS

Antenna 10m - Homebrew 3 element LFA Yagi, at 11m on MM0CUG telescopic mast.

Antenna 20m - Homebrew shortened 1/2 wave dipole (7.2m long, horizontal, 1.8uH coils in centre of each arm, capacity hats at the ends of each arm), 1m below 10m LFA Yagi.

Antenna 40m - End-fed half wave @ 7m maximum height.