Biography

Hello and thanks for visiting.

I have been licensed since about 2014 firstly as a foundation call VK6FADF and then upgraded to the Australian Advanced callsign VK6AKR. I am retired from a career in industrial and medical electronics and computing with involvement in airborne geophysical surveys in South Africa and Iran, then in medical electronics and computing with the University of Western Australia.

My interest in Amateur Radio started when I contacted the Western Australian VHF Group which has a QTH at the Wireless Hill Telecommunications Museum in the southern Perth suburb of Applecross. OF77VW. Wireless Hill has a long history in radio being the second of the high power stations bridging East and West coasts of Australia from 1912. It was decommissioned in 1987 and the WA VHF Group helped establish a Museum collection and display on the site.

More recently we have been asked to collaborate with a display dedicated to the history of Amateur Radio and the contributions it has made to communications, especially in Western Australia. You can visit the City of Melville website www.melville.wa.gov.au and look for museums. There is a VR tour of the display on that site.

My interests in AR include HF through to microwave and satellite communication as well. Together with other club members I help out at JOTA / JOTI and engage in some contests more for the enjoyment and camaraderie rather than the points hi hi.

73
Denis VK6AKR

Equipment

Mostly second hand...
TenTec 540
Atlas 210
Yaesu FT757
Baofeng KG-UVD1p (purchased new, my first rig, still going strong)
Ailunce HD1 (purchased new, my entry into DMR)
Various home-brew antennas, soon to erect a fan dipole for 40, 20 and 10m