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Hi, That's me holding the Premiership Cup 2007 for the Geelong Football Club,go Cat's, what an Honour,I arrived in Australia in 1967 from England/South Africa, This is the first time I have ever seen my footy Club the Cat's win the Premiership, I have been licensed for over 30years, previous call signs VK3NFP/VK4NFP/VK3JHE/VK3ACC/M0GVA And now current VK2RO. I have raised 10 children, 9 boys and 1 girl, I have 3 grandchildren, I am currently 56 yrs of age in the year 2007, I am married, my wifes name is Susan,She is a real Darling, and she loves my hobby, it keeps me home, I was born in England,Sutton Coldfield in the Midlands. I lived in South Africa for some time during my younger days, I then returned to England and then travelled out to Australia via the Persian Gulf,Ceylon,Singapore,Darwin at the age of 15 years, prior to that I had travelled most of the world, my Father was a consulting Ship's Engineer which took me everywhere, I now live on a Rural property in Southern New South Wales, approx 700kms S/W of Sydney, we are located on the Newell Highway which takes you to Brisbane from Melbourne.Melbourne is approx 4.0 hrs South of where i live,I have a very comprehensive array of equipment and antennas, my 40 mtr antenna is 3 element monoband beam, driven by a Yaesu FT-1000MP-MK-V Marshall MXL Microphone fed into a Behringer Ultra Voice Pro,Ameritron AL-811A Amplifier, 20mtr set up is as follows,Yaesu FT2000 with a Heil PR40 microphone fed into Alto Mic Pre Amp into a W2IHY EQ & EQ Plus, a Yaesu vl-1000 Quadra Linear Amp approx 400watts into a 6 element Telrex Beam, 10db of forward gain.My Spare Radio is a FlexRadio with the FA-66 Sound Card, My day employment I am a Senior Financial Planner with the largest bank in Australia, which takes me all over Australia I do a lot of driving, I have APRS on-board in my car,My Mobile set up is the Icom IC7000 With the HI-Q 5/80 Antenna with a RM Amplifier 400watts power, go mobile its a lot of fun.My favorite radio net is the HHH Net on 7.235mhz at0700z, Awards: Life Member RAOTC #1255 WAC WIA DXCC #533 ARRL DXCC#34,392 WAS #52,207 WAP #150 JCC #2,373 ADXA #3,277 WAJA #2,020 WAS#863HHH Net WPX #2,984 IARU Region 1 #6,847 IARU Region 111 #56 EWWA Award #325 WAZ #5080 My Favorite contact is W0HHH Keith on the HHH Net, he is a real gentleman.

"A VERSION OF THE KOOKABURRA SONG"

Kookaburra sits in an old gum tree Merry,merry king of the bush is he. Laugh Kookaburra, Laugh Kookaburra Great your life must be.

Kookaburra sits in an oldgum tree. Eating all the gumdrops he can see. Stop Kookaburra, Stop Kookaburra Save some there for me!

Kookaburra sits in an old gum tree, Counting all the monkeys he can see. Stop Kookaburra, stop Kookaburra, That's not a monkey, that's me!

Kookaburra sits on a rusty nail Gets a boo-boo in his tail Cry, Kookaburra! Cry, kookaburra! Oh how life can be!

Kookaburra sits on the electric wire, Jumping up and down with his pants on fire, Ouch, Kookaburra, ouch, kookaburra, Hot your tail must be.

73s for now Roger