HISTORY

First licenced as G8AWG in 1967. Became G3XBM in Dec 1967. Have held calls F0HXF, G9BIB and G9BGU (the last two were for VLF "earth mode" test stations).

Retired ex RF engineer and engineering manager. Married with 2 adult sons and now with 4 grandchildren.
Cerebellum brain bleed Sept 2013 has left me with some handicaps, but recovering.

WEBSITES

Homepage: http://www.g3xbm.co.uk
VLF site: https://sites.google.com/site/sub9khz/
Ham radio blog: http://g3xbm-qrp.blogspot.co.uk/
General "Miscellaneous Musings" blog: http://qss2.blogspot.co.uk/
East Anglian Churches blog: http://eachurches.blogspot.co.uk

AMATEUR RADIO INTERESTS

VLF (near 8.97kHz) operation (TX and RX). Best DX on TX 6km by earth mode and RX 1000km (G, DL, OE) by pure radiation.
472kHz QRP (mainly WSPR)
HF/VHF/UHF QRP (mainly WSPR) esp. 10m and 6m
481THz (lightbeam) experiments incl. over the horizon (NLOS) work QRP QRSS3
Modern crystal sets
WSPR and JT9

RIGS

FT817 and FT817ND
LDG auto-tune ATU
Lincoln President Mk 2 (10m only)
Yaesu VX1 and VX2 FM handhelds
WSPR-AXE-CW WSPR beacon from W5OLF (500mW 10m TX)
Fredbox 10mW 2m AM
Sixbox 250mW 6m AM
Various other homebrew rigs (incl 472kHz transverter, 136kHz beacon, VLF beacon)
 

OTHER INTERESTS

Fine weather birdwatching.
Family history (biographical details back to 1428 on the website).

LOCATION

JO02dg
TL56