Biography

I have been playing about with CB radio's since the 1970s, and was first licenced in 1985 under the callsign G1SMO.

I then passed my morse test a year later to gain my A licence, and my current callsign. Due to my then hectic life, I found that I didn't have enough time for radio, so I sold up and became QRT.

I returned to the hobby in 2013 after a 25 year absence, after my mate John (G0DTX) gave me a gift of a Beofeng dual-band handie-talkie to play around with.

I refused it at first, telling him that the interest wasn't there anymore............However, it didn't take long before the bug was back, and I was many ££s poorer, and back enjoying the hobby again.

​All thanks to John, and his cheap Chinese handie, and also to John (M0CSN) for his help in sourcing the majority of my new toys and antennas.

I am really happy to have been bitten by the radio bug again, and being able to hook-up with some old friends, and also some new ones, (Although I am doing more listening than talking at the moment)

As well as playing around the HF Bands, I am usually found Monitoring GB3PZ Repeater on 430.900, and MB6DF Dstar Node on 144.850.

I hope to catch you on air sometime!

I will Confirm all QSOs
via QRZ.COM and Hrdlog.net

73s for now.........Charlie

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

My station

Yaesu FT-1000MP MK-V



Icom IC 7100 for Digital HF



DV-RPTR V3 for DSTAR Reflector access.



Kenwood TM-V71E Dual band rig for 2m and 70cm.



Anytone 588 for 4m



Yaesu FT-707 (First HF rig before I was licenced)



Icom E880 for Mobile Dstar


Icom ID51E Handie



ANTENNA'S

For HF, a Long wire, Ciro Mazzoni Baby Loop, MA5B Minibeam, and a Vertical for 10 Metres.

Dual Band Collinear for VHF/UHF

Vertical for 4 Metres