Biography

Passed my UK Foundation licence in Jan 2024. Shout out to Essex Ham who run a brilliant online course!

By day, I'm a Technical Specialist for a Heating & Ventilation manufacturing company, so I deal with heat pumps, electric heating, datalogging & remote diagnostics. A mix of F-Gas refrigeration, electrical, plumbing and IT.

Outside of work, I'll often be found near a 3D printer, electronics workbench or tinkering with Linux in some form. Been a shortwave listener for a while too. Recently been bitten by the Meshtastic bug, so I have several 868MHz nodes around Southampton on "LongFast" radio setting (ASTR, MUMN, JANN, PCKT & PCK2). If you're into that and local, ping me a message on the LongFast channel!

QSL - No post, eQSL only, thanks!


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Wes

Equipment

Xiegu G90 on a 20m long EFLW antenna (should cover 80m-10m)
Retevis RT95 for 2m/80cm connected to a Comet GP93 5/8 antenna
Baofeng UV-5R
Tecsun PL-680
NooElec SDR receiver & RF upconverter
Degen CY-1
Icom IC-R20 scanner
Midland Alan 42 DS
1.1M Triax TD110 dish, H-H mount & various DVB decoders for feed hunting

Lilygo TTGO boards for Meshtastic
Lilygo T-Echo for Meshtastic