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ON LINE LOG. Go to my website and check your call with my real time on line
log.
QSL INFO. I prefer it if you send me your QSL card via the bureau. If you
choose to send me QSL card direct, pse put 1 new IRC (or 2 US $ for postal
cost), and a self-addressed envelope. Thank you.
First interest in radio was in the late 60’s while still a music student at the
Guildhall School of Music and Drama in London and living in Hertford. A trip
down Tottenham Court Road produced the first receiver which was then connected
to a full wave Windom on 80 meters. Listening was restricted to night time so
an interest in 80 meter DX was cultivated.
On moving to Aberdeen any form of station was hard to set up because of
accommodation problems. However I was first licensed as GM6AXU on VHF and UHF
and had lots of fun working friends in Aberdeen with occasional DX to the
continent and Norway. In 1985 I passed my Morse and requested the callsign
GMØDBW. Spent many a happy evening chasing DX of any kind on HF with GM4PVC
(now VK6CPV) with talk back on VHF achieving DXCC very quickly.
In 1992 ran the first school link station between Linksfield Academy Aberdeen
and School No 6 in Gomel, Belarus (before kid link) with the callsign GBØLAG
where the pupils where permitted to pass “Greetings messages” to each other,
this lasted for a month. (Thank you R.S.G.B.).
Life has moved apiece since then!!! I now have my HF and VHF station back “On
line”. I still have my trusty IC 740 and IC AT 500, but now I also have an IC
2KL, IC 735, IC 251e with the mutec front end, a 100 watt B.N.O.S. Linear and a
IC PS 30. “A classic set up”. With DSP by bhi.
Christmas Eve 2005 a much waited on (from February) IC 7000 arrived :-) One of
the first in the UK!!! The VHF stations are connected to a 10 XY and the HF
stations are connected to a Hustler 5 band vertical as I live in the centre of
Aberdeen but I am working on the neighbours ;-).
Success!! I now have a ZX-Yagi MINI-2000 and its getting out very well!!!
I run VHF and UHF from the car and am to be heard on S22 from about 08.00 local
on working weekdays. I still chase low band DX (mostly on 40 meters these days)
any DX and also IOTA.
Qsl cards printed by UX5UO print.
Logging and station management Winlog32. A great program Colin!!! Try it!!
Fully working and free!!! http://www.winlog32.co.uk
Above all this I have a daughter Mary :-).
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