I was licenced in 1988 with the G7DNT call. In 1988 this was a class B call and allowed only VHF and above access. I also hold a A class call of M0XON.

In 2001 I took the M3 call and was then allowed to use the 10 watts on all HF bands.

Radio communications agency decided that Morse code be dropped and all class B licenced Amateurs became upgraded to A Class.

I also run the local Echo-IRLP node in Ipswich the node nubers are IRLP 5503 and Echolink 262500

If your in the local area please tune in to 145.3375 Mhz with a 110.9 CTCSS

In 2006 I decided in having a radio shack built and the wife wanted the spare room back.

More details and photos will be added soon please click continue to see the progress.

I have a Ten-Tec Orion for HF fed into a HF linear giving me 400 watts thats then fed into a 4 Element HF Beam up at 65 feet.

I then have an Icom 7400 HF/6M and 2M all mode fed into a 9 Element 2m beam and a 40m dipole.

The Yaesu FT1804M is a 50 watt 70cm radio and this feeds a 19 element Tonna up at 63 feet.

The antenna on the chimney is a 5/8 wave ringo for 4m and feeds an old Tate radio thats on 70.450Mhz all the time.

A Dual Band 5/8 mobile antenna fitted to a ground plane kit and attached to a support bar off the cage up at 60 feet is my day to day antenna on 2m FM.