Biography

Retired teacher, interested in radio for over 60 years. Previous calls G7UST, F8VOC. (We lived in France for a time before returning to Suffolk).
Works all bands 160m - 70cm, mainly SSB. (160m is difficult from present QTH). Favourite bands 6m, 10m, 40m and 17m ssb - but poor QTH for antennas! 4m and 6m operating uses a 3 ele beam or 5/8 vertical.
Also enjoy LW/MW/FM bandII DX-ing with home-made loop antennas, NDB monitoring, lightning monitoring. I enjoy experimenting with different wire antennas for all the bands. There is always something to find on the radio frequencies!!

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

Icom IC-7300 for HF, 6m and 4m, Xiegu G90, Alinco DX10, Yaesu FT-7800E on 2m/70cm FM, MFJ-949E tuner, MFJ artificial ground tuner, SDRSP2 receiver, various old handhelds/scanners. HF and 2m linears, up to 300w HF, 200w 2m, 100w 6m.
Antennas:- Inv-L multiband, ground-mounted vertical, 3-ele dual band beam for 4m, 5/8wave vertical for 70MHz/50MHz, plus various other odd bits of wire! Very limited space for decent antennas, we have a tiny garden and the trees are all across roads, so all the wire antennas are hidden in the guttering and fall-pipes or against the rear wall of the house.