I have been licenced since 2005, progressing from M3LUA to M0EAV in about 5 months.

My home station is a Yaesu FT-897 feeding a homebrew OCF dipole through an MFJ tuner.  Maximum of 100 watt is plenty for me.

I am active on VHF and UHF in the car using an Icom 2820 D-Star enabled radio. 

My main interest is operating portable and I use a Yaesu FT-817 with an SGC-211 portable autotuner into an 88ft dipole which is normally held up in the centre by a 7m fishing pole.  I am in the process of building my own portable rotatable dipole similar in design to the buddipole.  I am looking forward to getting that out onto the only thing we can call a hill (Cambridgeshire is somewhat flat!) and go for some QRP Portable.  I am also continuing to learn Morse Code to make the best use of the 817's 5 watt output.

I am a member of the Cambridgeshire Repeater Group (CRG) and help out when required.  I am also part of the Camb Hams, the social side of the CRG, who meet every month to organise expeditions and contest entries.  The Camb Hams expeditions range from a SOTA Activation to a full Dx-pedition to the islands of Mull (2008) and Harris (2009).  You can find out more information about the CRG at www.cambridgerepeaters.net and the Camb Hams at www.camb-hams.com.

Thanks for looking me up on QRZ and if we have spoken, many thanks for the contact, if not, I look forward to talking to you in the future. 

73 for now.

John