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, HF SSB/FT8/4. (160m is difficult from present QTH). Favourite bands 6m, 10m, 40m and 17m - but poor QTH for antennas! 4m and 6m operating use dipoles 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

Yaesu FT-DX710 for HF, 6m and 4m, Kenwood TS-590S for HF and 6m, MFJ-949E and 945E tuners, MFJ artificial ground tuner, SDRSP2 receiver, various old handhelds/scanners. HF and 2m linears, up to 350w HF, 200w 2m, 100w 6m.
Antennas:- Inv-L multiband, ground-mounted vertical,dipoles for 4m/6m ssb, 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.
The 2 HF antennas, being end-fed, are loaded against approximately 350ft/110m of assorted-lengthen ground wires, some buried, some on the ground.