Biography

G'day.

I have finally obtained my ticket in March 2007 after intending to get it for the last 30 years (since using the high school club station). I work in the computing/networking area and electronics has been a hobby since I was a teenager.

I have an interest in programming and digital processing (and building things using this technology) as well as homebrewing in general.

I also enjoy travelling around Australia with my wife and 2 boys (in our 4x4 camping at every opportunity) and amateur radio has become part of this pastime using an IC-7000 and a FT-897D.

Currently setting up for some of the higher bands (23 and 13cm completed so far) and also installing a satellite tracking rotator with a 2M and 70cm circular polarised Yagi.

I also have the callsign VK3GRS.

73's

Gerard (vk3cg/vk3grs)

Equipment

Kenwood TS-990S
Kenwood TS-2000
Icom IC-7100
Kenwood TM-V71A
SPE Expert 1.3K-FA
Linear Amp UK Gemini 2
Linear Amp UK Gemini 70
Transverters for 23 and 13cm (and PA's and LNA's)

HexBeam (20M - 6M)
CP6 Vertical (80M - 6M)
2 x 80M OCF dipoles
Gridpacks for 23 and 13cm
Yagis for 6M, 2M and 70cm
Various SDR receivers (CloudIQ, B200, BladeRF, SDRPlay, AirSpy etc)