Biography

Isle of Jura
Lat :N55° 51' 45"
Long :W5° 56' 22"
WAB NR57
QTH locator : IO75AU;
IOTA Number EU-008

My Main website http://www.mm6jdn.co.uk is now online

My photo Gallery can be accessed via.
http://www.juraphotos.co.uk/index.php

QSL CARDS via email is preferred

Digital modes sorry i do not generaly do qsl cards for qso's generated soly using macros

I was licensed on the 28th of March 2013 with special thanks to the Lomond amateur radio club
Who went out of their way to help me with training and regestering a exam centre at my local school
due to my location it would have being very dificult to attend courses etc though I do have a good grounding
with marine radio vhf and edistone HF marine radios.
I am the first resident licensed amateur radio operator in the island of Jura

All of my equipment apart from one transceivers I built myself
on a very low budget and limited resources. mostaly salvaged from old radios and coustom made componants

Antennas

Topband Two wave loop fed with home-made 4" open wire feeder into shack made hight 80+ feet droping to 40 feet near the shore aprox 20 yards from sea over a small burn and permanataly wet ground ( a peat bog and springs. )
ATU home made colins or balanced Pi match

Delta loop for 40 meters fed with open wire feeder over the burn next to my house mounted with apex 40 feet above centre of burn results so far appear to be quite directional favering to the NE -> S -> SSW

A full size 1/4 wave 80 meter vertical fed with open wire feeder ( a bit unoutherdox for a unbalanced antenna but has a 1:1 balun at feed point ) works extreamly well


For 2 Meters a home made 14 element Franklin type collinier ( Testing ) receives very well

ATU,s
Home-made collins type atu has being updated with duel roller inductors on one former hand made by GM4OAQ this is a experimental roller inductor but the quality of workmanship and engineering is quite impressive, puts palstar to shame
its undergoing testing and with some very minor modifications

home made ballenced S-match atu experimental results so far look very good
https://pa0fri.home.xs4all.nl/ATU/Smatch/smatcheng.htm
it is a realy nice atu and low loss with good ballence cheap and easy to construct
Both the S-Match and the Collins atu,s are fitted with home made directional couplers for tuning

home-made single coil ZMatch ATU good for 40 to 10 meters totaly useless on topband.I use for portable use


Radios
Icom IC-718
Kenwoos TS-590SG
Yeticom Optima
HF Home made qrp set
IC-2200H

About me
Semi retired shellfish diver/fisherman now working shore side
worked in North sea fishing and Salvage work also have worked round just about all of the islands
north of the mull of kintyre to the summer isles and out west to St Kilda,
My other interests in photography, flying Microlites and paragliding

My photo Gallery http://www.juraphotos.co.uk/index.php

My website ( Being up dated ) http://www.mm6jdn.co.uk/mm6/index.php
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