Biography

As a youngster I developed a keen interest in radio and electronics a curiosity that still interests me today. My First experience with transmitting was using C.B and discovered Amateur Radio a little later in the 80’s. Work life then later became a priority and 35 years passed by travelling around the U.K & Europe as a lorry driver, 2020 suddenly arrived when we had the sad news in the U.K of Covid-19 Lockdown. Fortunately, this gave me a golden opportunity of time to pursue my interest in Amateur Radio and started to study with BBDL (Bath-Based-Distance-Learning) That provides professionally delivered courses by Steve Hartley (G0FUW) with dedicated tutors all for free by volunteers!My main interest is operating on various modes and can be heard on vhf/uhf/digital modes including the South-West-Cluster (https://gb7bs.com/southwest-cluster-coverage-map/swc-dashboards.html) on DMR. I enjoy experimenting building my own antennas, due to local QRM at my home QTH I enjoy operating on one of the Mountains in Wales when I can. My typical working station is: Yeasu FTDX10-Icom IC-7300-Antyone 578 & 878, I also have an interest in using a Euronode ( https://www.dvmega.nl/euronode/ ) Raspberry Pi’s for WPSD ( https://w0chp.radio/wpsd/) and scanning with a RTL SDR Dongle using https://www.openwebrx.de/

Hope to catch you on the air!

Best 73's

Paul

De-MWØVCK

Equipment

Yeasu FTDX 10
Anytone 578
Anytone 868