Biography

Celebrating 41 Years Licenced Radio Amateur

First licenced in 1971 at the age of 14 years I have been involved in amateur radio for 45 years. Originally licenced as G8FHU I have held the callsigns G4CFS, GW4CFS, VP8CRN, ZB2/GM4CFS, IT9/GM4CFS and EA8/G4CFS

I enjoy operating on all bands using SSB, CW and Digi modes. I have recently become addicted to 6m and have spent a lot of time improving my set-up. I am usually found around 50.230 Mhz at the moment working meteor scatter with JT6M & ISCAT. I also enjoy operating via the OSCAR amateur satelites. In addition I also operate SSTV using MMSSTV software. BPSK31 and RTTY using MixW and JT65 & JT9 on the HF bands.

Member of UKSMG, AMSAT UK, AMSAT, EPC, 30MDG, BCS amongst others.

REMEMBER - ITS NOT A HOBBY ITS AN OBSESSION!

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

My current station consists of:

HF - IC-756 with a HF5B Beam and Doublet

6M - IC-7400 plus 400W Linear into a 5 element yagi with masthead preamp

Satellite - TS-2000 with a 2M 4 element / 70CM 10 element combi