Biography

Hi everyone my name is Gareth i live in South Wales UK, as you can tell from my call sign im new to amateur radio a (newbee) ,grew up with CB radio in the 1980's and loved the idea of more or less free communication, using home base and mobile which was lots of fun i have always wanted to get my ham radio license but was not electronically minded but since ofcom changed licensing around iv managed to get the first of the licenses foundation which i was over the moon with i then with lots of saving and selling older radios managed to buy my first ham base radio the yaesu FTDX 1200 and im loving it just to even sit there and listen is a joy and have since extended my radio collection slightly with the ft8900R the baofeng uv 5r and the TYT MD380 DMR,now to concentrate on the intermediate level just looking at the book gives me the shakes lol but iv got plenty of time to get my head in the book but in the mean time get on the airwaves and get some QSO's, Frequencies and bands i can be found on are 20m-14.250.500 and 40m-7.150.500 feel free and give me a shout be great to get some contacts to fill my log book thanks for stopping by 73's to you and your families.

Equipment

ANTENNA - 9-1 WIDE BANDED UNUN WITH 23 METER KEVLAR WIRE
RADIOS - YAESU FT8900 YEASU FT857 YEAU FTDX1200
POWER - ONLY USING ALLOWED 10 WATT