Biography

Passed Foundation on 29th October 2004

Passed Intermediate on 5th March 2006

Passed advanced on 4th June 2009

Equipment

My radio station consists of a Vertex Standard, Yaesu FT-847,and a Yaesu Musen FT-991.(microphones include a MH-31b8 handheld and a MH-36e8j DTMF hand held microphone, converted from a modular to a round, 8-pin jack, to fit a FT-847 and the same hand held MH-36ej with a modular jack for the FT-991 / or a Heil proset 5, head set and boom microphone ). The VHF 4m amplifier is a TARP4SB from Spectrum Communications and the 2m is a Microset SR 200. The HF is a Linear amp UK. Ranger 811H. Antennas are a Carolina Windom 160 special for mf & hf. A vertical Hygain DX 88, ground mounted for hf. And a FORCE 12 YAGI, XR6-11 from Innovation Antennas. The XR6-11 works on the�20/17/15/12/10/6 meter bands and has 11 elements. It is rotated by a Spid-Rak, Azimuth rotator.�The XR6-11 is mounted on a mast, supplied and built by CUG Mast Solutions. The mast is 12 meters high when fully extended. The lower 6 meters is tilted by a winch, and the higher 6 meters is wireless remote controlled, so it can be elevated from in the shack. The outer mast is 90mm x 90mm and the inner section is 80mm x 80mm. The Mast is fully galvanised and is mounted is a sleeve which is concreted into the ground by approximately half a cubic meter of cement sand and gravel. At this point I would like to thank Gary, MM0CUG of CUG MAST SOLUTIONS for installing the mast and the XR6-11 FORCE 12 Antenna. The Antennas are Transmatched by a Palstar AT-2KP. There are also roof mounted verticals, Panorama-Antennas BSV-E3 for 4m and a Watson 2000 vertical for 6m+2m+70cms. The transceiver is powered by an Alnicos DM-330MW PSU.

All sound card Digital and voice modes are supported by the Tigertronics Signalink USB.


I live in what is known as the debatable lands on the English/Scottish Borders.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Debatable_Lands

If you look at my address above and zoom out on the map, ( in detail section ) you will notice that the hamlet of the Bailey is in England. However I have a Scottish post town and zip code (post code). You could say, today even in the 21st century I still live in the Debatable lands.