Biography
Hello and thank you for visiting my page.
I am Danny, 2E0KPX from Leigh-On-Sea in the county of Essex. I have been interested in radio from a young age starting out with CB radio. Wanting to get onto the ameteur bands I decided to be one of the first guinea pigs to take the foundation Exam back in 2002. After passing the exam I held the call sign of M3RLQ for some time before moving on up the ladder to my current call.
I've enjoyed working the world on 50w or less on HF and when conditions are poor I move over to VHF/UHF where I also enjoy working the AMSATS. I wanted to make it my mission in 2018 to talk through ametuer satellites both FM/SSB. After much reading and watching Youtube clips I bought myself a reasonal pair of 2m/70cm yagi beams and designed and built my own tilt bracket to accommodate both the antennas. The whole structure being light weight, thrown in the car along with a 110ah leisure battery two radio's for full duplex and away we go.
Two Tree Island (JO01HM) is a favorite spot of mine for playing radio where out in the open there is absolutely no QRM and with the added salt water for HF days out - this get me all over world conditions permitting. My home QTH (JO01HN) is in a dip and isn't a great location for radio so if you can just about make out my call sign via satellite this is the reason why!
I have added a few photos of past antennas and the present.
Please feel free to drop me a line if you wish and I will respond.
See you on the air soon.
Danny
Equipment
AMATEUR RADIO EQUIPMENT
Yaesu FTDX10
Icom IC-7100
Icom IC-7300
Xiegu X6100
Kenwood TS-480SAT for the car
Yaesu FT-991
Yaesu FT-60 2m 70cm handheld
Intek KT-980HP 2m 70cm PMR handheld
Yaesu FT-8900R 2m 70cm 10m 6m
Ailunce HD1 GPS
AnyTone AT877UV
ANTENNA
Diamond X-300 for 2m/70cm
Diamond HF6CL
Diamond HF20CL
Diamond HF40CL
Diamond CR8900 quad band
Diamond SG7900 2m 70cm
Diamond SD330 80m - 10m
Diamond SDC1 Tuning Controller
Diamond A502BH 6m yagi
Diamond A144S5 beam
Home brew Moxon for 6m
Home brew Moxon for 4m
Home brew Deltaloop for 4m
Home brew mobile dipole for 17m
Home brew AHVD 6 bander
EA270ZB13 13 El beam
144mhz LFA Yagi
Buddipole
Diamond BB7V
Sirio 5000 (Mobile whip)
Sirio 4000 (Mobile whip)
Magnetic Loop for 80m - 10m
Chameleon CHA MPAS Lite
Danny