Biography

Hi from the S Pacific

Thanks for looking me up. We may have had a recent QSO on 1 of my Magloop's if QSO was in summer or during winter I used my new Off Center Fed Dipole . Thank you for that contact. My name is Mike. I love sailing, fishing and just being outdoors.( Needless to say...I am an All Black rugby fan as well ) .I've been involved with radio since the late 70's beginning on the 11m citizen radio band and had lots of fun doing that. After immigrating to New Zealand and settling in I decided to obtain my Amateur Radio licence and with the encouragement from ZL2KCW and the excellent help and support of ZL4AA here we are at last!

My main HF radio is : Icom 7300 and Kenwood TS-590 .Next to all this is an MFJ-969 Antenna tuner used with my new Off Centre Fed Dipole covering 80m,60m,40m, 20m,17m,15m,12m,10m,6m

My new antennas are various home brew mono band Magloop antennas tuned for the 80m,60m,40m,20m,15m,17m,10m Moxon HF bands and recently I have added a multiband Off Centre fed Dipole. For 60m Tx I use only 15W max on the dual 60m/80m magloop & 100W when tx'n on 80m .I have relocated to Dunedin in Dec 2014 from Kerikeri in the Bay of Islands in the Far north of NZ and built and installed all the antennas. for your info here are some details of what they are. ( I would have used one of them to talk to you )

Main antennas all homebrew :

60m/80m 2 turn magloop.dual band

40m Parallel 2 turn magloop monoband

20m Parallel MLA monoband

15m Square parallel MLA monoband

17m Octagonal Single monoband MLA

10m Moxon monoband

Multiband- Off Centre Fed dipole covering 80m,60m,40m,20m,17m,15m,10m,6m

The antenna's are manually rotatable which is a real pleasure after using fixed dipoles for years.For VHF ( 2m) and UHF ( 70cm ) work I use a mobile magnetic mount antenna stuck on the metal roof and its connected to my Zastone Z218 VHF/UHF radio ( also known as BaoJie bj218) . I also use a portable dual band radio called a Baofung UV-5RA when I am just strolling around. I am also setup for Echolink and enjoying exploring this medium when the band conditions are poor.

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

My current rigs are a Kenwood TS-590 and an Icom IC-7300