Biography

Hi folks,

Thank you for visiting my QRZCQ page. My name is Rodger and my QTH is a town called Weir Views, Melbourne, Australia
My interest was created while I was in scouts in South Africa at a young age. I went to a Jamboree on the Air (JOTA) by a very dear friend - ZS1BW (Bernie Crockford). I used to visit him a lot to learn about being a ham, and he showed me moon bounce and DX. I got my restricted license in the early 80's and started doing packet radio with a few friends (ZS1NG & ZS1BW).

In 1998 I moved the Auckland, New Zealand and converted my license to ZL1RAH. Now I've moved to Melbourne, Australia and have changed my callsign to VK3DXC.

73 and hear you on the bands.

Rodger

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

Transceivers HF:
Icom IC-9100
Icom IC-756 PRO II (10-160m + WARC/6m)
Yaesu FT-857D with YT-100 tuner.
Icom IC-R71E (0.1-30MHz AM/SSB/CW/RTTY FM)
Kenwood TS-120S (10-80m)

Transceivers VHF/UHF:
Yaesu VX-5R (6m/2m/70cm)
Icom IC-H16 (2m)
Puxing PX-777

Antennas:
Emcomm End Fed Half Wave
Hustler 5-BVT Multiband HF Vertical Antenna (working on IC-756 Pro II)
Hy-Gain 18AVT (rebuilding)
Harvest HUV-8 (down for repairs)
ATAS-120A (on the vehicle)

TNC's:
PK232 MBX
TNC5+
Argent OpenTracker+