Biography

Long time telecom engineer (25+) who finally radio licensed in 2013/2014.   After many years of on and off radio monitoring, following the industry, living vicariously through others.

Finally picked a couple of handhelds, mobiles, and HF radio.   Slowly making contacts with HF/VHF/UHF/APRS.     Now experimenting with antenna design, SDR, MMDVM / PiStar (MMDVM D-Star / YFS / POSAG).  

Located in Kamloops,BC, Canada  -- Out wondering the hills/mountains of BC and lakes to Kayak in..

GRID: CO90TQ / ITU: 02 / CQ: 03  

Equipment

for my radios of current times:

Icom ID-880H - Primary Mobile radio.
YEASU FTM-400D - Secondary radio and APRS.
YEASU FT-450D for HF
Icom ID-31A / BAOFENG UV-5R / BF-A58  Handhelds 

Lora 433Mhz Boards - Lora Tracking APRS & Lora APRS iGate

RasPi - Dual Antenna - MMDVM - PiSTAR
RasPi - APRS Igate RX /w USB SDR
RasPi - Aircraft Tracker - USB SDR
RasPi - SatTrack - Satellite Tracker