Biography

I gained my Foundation licence in April 2018 and Intermediate licence in April 2019.
Trained at, and now a member of, HARS - Hereford Amateur Radio Society.

I have been a SWL for many years, monitoring anything between LF and Satellite TV.
Starting with a home made crystal set as a teenager and subsequently joining the
Royal Corps of Signals as a Radio Telegraphist in 1979.

Currently messing around with OpenWebRx+, LoRa APRS on 439Mhz and LoRa Meshtastic on 869Mhz.
DMR, Pi-Star, Raspberry Pi's and digimodes like FT8, WSPR, SSTV, RTTY and PSK31 are also of interest.
I also like to decode LRPT images from the NOAA and Meteor M weather satellites.
I try to monitor GB3VN / 145.500 / 433.500 / 144.6125 YSF

My previous callsigns were: M6YRT and up to October 2025, 2E0YRT

Equipment

Yaesu FTM-300DE
Yaesu FT-991A | Yaesu FT-450D / MFJ-949E Tuner / MD-100 Mic
Yaesu FT-857D / LDG YT-100 | Yaesu FT-817ND
TYT TH-9800 Quad band FM (in the car) | TYT TH-UV8000D Dual band handheld
Anytone AT-778UV 2m/70cm | Anytone AT-779 4m version
Anytone AT-D868UVE DMR | Retevis RT3 DMR | Baofeng DM-32UV DMR
Kenwood Trio R-2000 / Yaesu FRG-8800 receivers
Baofeng UV-5R / UV-82 / GT-3 / BF888 (lots of)
Various Raspberry Pi's for APRS, LoRa APRS, Pi-Star, OpenWebRx+ etc..
Airspy Mini / Spyverter, RSP1A and various RTL SDR dongles
Uniden UBC75XLT Scanner
Motorized Satellite System. Enigma 2 OpenViX / OpenPLi