Biography

Hi all,

My name is Richard, I am married to my wonderful loving wife Lynne and we have two beautiful daughters, Samantha and Brianna.

I have been involved in radio since 1978 and I am proud to say I have now obtained my Amateur Radio Licence as of the 25th day of July 2006. I obtained my Amateur Operator's Certificate of Proficiency (Advanced) the old full call under the call sign VK2KRM.

On 16thApril 2009, I decided to obtained a two letter call and can now be heard as VK2BD. This is particularly a special call for me as it was chosen by my wife and little girl, who have their own meaning to the letters BD which in their eyes mean Brianna's Daddy and I am happy to say that my little girl loves coming down to the radio shack with me and playing around with the radios. I have also been able to convince and teach my wife to go for a licence, which she passed in May 2012 becoming VK2FLMM.

I am also involved with a few radio clubs and take great joy in doing contesting, either under a club call or my own call.

I am an active member of VK2AWA Contest Group Inc.

I am a active member of VK1CC

I am a active member of Fishers Ghost Amateur Radio Club.

I am a active member Wireless Institute of Australia.

Certificates and Awards

CQ WORLD WIDE WPX Contest 2007 1st Place Rookie Low Power All Band division ofAustralia.

Using my first callsignVK2KRM

CQ WORLD WIDE 160 Meter DX Contest 2007 1st Place Single Operator SSB Australia Low Power. Using my first callsign VK2KRM.

WESTLAKES CUP CONTEST 2008 3rd Open section 2008 100W. Using my first callsign VK2KRM.

CQ WORLD WIDE 160 Meter DX Contest 2009 1st Place Single Operator Low PowerSSB AUSTRALIA #1 OCEANIA. Using my first callsign VK2KRM.

CQ WORLD WIDE WPX Contest 2009 1st Place Oceania Rookie Low Power All Band division of Australia#24th World. Using my first callsign VK2KRM.

CQ WORLD WIDE WPX Contest 2009 1st Place Australia 2 Area Low Power All Band division of Australia#8th Oceania, #2nd Australia. Using my first callsign VK2KRM.


My Contests Calendar

I am normally involved in the following contest through out the year either under my own callsign VK2BD or under club callsigns VK2AWA and VK1CC .

CQ 160M SSB (VK2BD)
ARRL International DX Contest (VK2BD)
John Moyle Field Day (VK2AWA)
CQ WW WPX SSB (VK2BD or VK1CC)
VK/TRANS TASMAN 80M SSB (VK2AWA)
VK/TRANS TASMAN 160M SSB (VK2AWA)
IARU HF WORLD CHAMPIONSHIP (VK2BD)
REMEMBRANCE DAY CONTEST (VK2AWA)
OCENIA DX SSB CONTEST (VK2AWA)
CQ WW DX SSB CONTEST(VK2BD or VK1CC)
VHF/UHF FIELD DAY’S (VK2BDorVK2AWA)




73s
Richard VK2BD









Proudly Supporting Amateur Radio

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Equipment

I am still in the process of adding to my radios and antennas it is an on going project when it stops who knows. but its good to be proudly supporting Amateur Radio.
My station setup is as below.
Radios:
Icom IC-9100 160-10m/6m/2m/70cm/23cm (Home/Portable).
Yaesu FT-847 160-10m/6m/2m/70cm (Home/Portable).
Yaesu FT-8900R 10m/6m/2m/70cm (Home/Portable/Mobile). VK2BD-9
Yeasu VX-8G 2m/70CM APRS/GPS Operating as VK2BD-7 orVK2BD-6

Antennas Home:
End Feed Zep; 80/160M (Home)
Butternut HF9V mounted 5m above the ground; 80/40/30/20/17/15/12/10/6 M (Home)

Comet GP15 6m/2/m/70cm (Home)
Diamond X-6000 2m/70cm/23cm (Home)

Antennas Portable:
Home made OCF Dipole 160m to 6m (Portable).
Home made 160m Dipole (Portable).
Home made 15m (Portable).

Antennas Mobile:
Diamond CR8900 for mobile use. Quad-band 10m to 70cm
Other Equipment:
Tiny Tracker 4 operating as VK2BD-9,
APRS: VK2BD-1
VK2BD-7
VK2BD-9