My Name is Darrian, i am 40 yrs old and i live in the East Midlands (central part of the Unitied Kingdom) in the County of Derbyshire, Near to the Small Market Town of Ripley With my partner Anita (M3NTS).
I decided to take the amateur radio foundation licence I finally passed in May 2002 and obtained my M3 call sign. This callsign enables me to use the amatuer bands and to transmit with a PEP of 10watts maximum.
I have only recently returned to the bands after a long spell off air due to work commitments but now i'm back on air using either my 66FT ENDFED for 40M, or my SP71DX HEXBEAM for 6/10/12/15/17/20,
Both of the Antennas are mounted on my Telescopic 12mt Tower.
The radio is a KENWOOD TS590s with a HEIL HM-12 studio microphone. The Radio is connected to Two computers, One running HRDLOG and the other running the Kenwood ARCP to run the radio.
I really like the challenge of DXing With my simple Station and 10 watts i have spoken to many peoples and countries around the world, (167 DXCC As of 05/05/2013 at the last count) including, Australia, Japan, South America the Falklands, and even the International Space station (I know the last isn't a country).
I am active on most bands including 40, 20, 17, 15, 12mtrs, Where you will you may hear me calling DX on any of the HF Bands just to see what i can work with just 10 watts,
So if you hear me calling please give me a call and i will be pleased to speak with you and add you to my log book.
I have also recently started collecting WORKED ALL BRITAIN SQUARES so you may hear me on the W.A.B. net 7.160mhz during the day if im not calling DX. My W.A.B square is SK44 , :Book Number 19742 Locator IO93HA
If you do hear me but are either shy or i cant hear you (Shortwave listeners)i would very much welcome a signal report from you ,
