Born 1938

Trained by the British Army in Wireless Operating and other skills.
Served in Active Service in S.E.Asia and Middle East.
Built my first radio aged 10. A one valve (tube) battery driven RX, using components from a broken set.
Long time as SWL from age 9 to getting licence.
First licence VS2JD Malaya (1957)
UK Licence (1975)
Also 4X4QE (1982) Israel
Absent from the hobby for a number of years.
QSL via QRZ.com.or eQSL.com All Direct QSLs will be answered

Left the hobby for many years while living abroad, mainly in France and Portugal; finally returned permanently to UK in 2010

Member of the Royal Signals Amateur Radio Society
( RSARS. No. 1425 )

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Radio equipment :-
(Radio History is valuable that is why I save and use these old sets.)

CW with
1 x Kenwood - TS-830s GOLD
1 x Kenwood - TS-830s
1 x Kenwood - TS530sp
+ Yaesu FC-902 ATU
Rebuilding Kenwood TS-520se.
Plus a home-made 2 x 813 Amplifier for CW only.

Data modes
ICOM 718 + Signalink JT65. QRP

Antenna = OCFD.30 feet coil one side, 70 feet horizontal the other.
fed with coax and common mode choke
Height at 8metres
Antenna is over the roof apex

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Extensive Ocean sailing (1978 - 2006) in my own yacht, "PATRIOT" a 6 berth Bermudan sloop. (Now sold!)
One time sailing journalist for Sailing Today magazine. Now retired: