Biography

MM6PMQ is located in the region of Berwickshire, approx 60km/40 miles South East of Edinburgh, the QTH is right on the North Sea coast approx 100m ASL with a good clear take off out over the water......

Mainly I don't stray far from HF with the occasional skirmish onto 6m.....less occasionally to 2m/70cm.
Something I recently liberated from storage is my Digimaster Pro Plus interface for datamodes which I enjoy but haven't used much since during the long hot summer that saw the UK on lockdown due to the plague!....

The software I use is MMSSTV, MixW 3.2, WSJT-X/WSJT-Z, JTDX & FLDigi...
FLDigi I like a lot and have used for quite some time...you just get used to some things I suppose....features include a logbook, callbook lookup, rig control and the list goes on.... I like PSK31/63, RTTY, and SSTV, lately more SSTV and PSK than anything else...

Since my last update my CAT cable has arrived, I wish I'd ordered one years ago!....no more wrong band logging on FT8!


Becoming proficient at CW is something I want to score off my list of things I should've done years ago but never stuck at it.....This is one of my favourite modes and try and make at least a few CW contacts everyday so if you hear my CQ then please do say hello...

All my QSOs, (SSB, CW, PSK, SSTV, RTTY. FT4/FT8 or otherwise) are automatically uploaded to eQSL, ClubLog, QRZ.com, LotW and HRDlog.net if not at the time of the QSO then certainly that same day.....



WAB Square: NT77 - Coastal square
WAB Book No.: 22717
ITU Zone: 27
CQ Zone: 14
DMR-ID: 2354654
FT4DMC: 01232
FT8DMC: 21578
EPC: 35451 (UK.SC.SB)

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

Radios:
Yaesu FT1000MP - HF SSB
Yaesu FT900 - HF Digital Modes
Icom IC706Mk2G - mobile and portable HF & V/UHF
Kenwood TS480HX
DMR : Anytone 868UV & Radioditty GD77

Antenna Tuners -
Palstar AT2K
MFJ-Differential T Tuner (986D)
MFJ-949E
S.E.M TranZmatch (great tuners, I have two)

Mic: Heil Pro-Set Plus - used on MP

Antennas: 6BTV vertical - ground mounted with radials (last count there was approaching 40, there may be more now?)
G5RV 80-10m Inverted @ 12m
End Fed 40m-10m 9:1 Unun
H/Brew 17m dipole
Slidewinder Coil & 9ft MIL whip
Dual Band Watson X30 collinear for 2m/70cm @ 10m

Mobile: AmPro monoband verticals for 80m through 10m
Diamond SG7900 2m/70cm