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Despite playing with electronics when I was at school and building the effects that where installed in a project electric guitar in the early 1970s' I didn't really get into Amateur Radio until much later and after I had spent some while really gettingto grips with computers. Whilst I had built a Sinclair Scientific Calculator, which I still have whilst at school, computer programming later seemed to be the skill that would keep me relevant for work. So it was much later and after having decided that it was best to be licenced that I took the Radio Amateurs exam to become a a class 'B' operator and then soon after the Morse code test a class 'A' operator.

Like it did for Guitar, work took priority and having passed and operated my radios for about 5 years, an illness that occurred also affected radio and more. Although I recovered over time, Radio didn't give me the things that guitar could in small doses so it was left for many years. I returned to Radio in 2018 after a break of about 30 years.

I operate HF, VHF and UHF and have dabbled with digital radio. Things moved on from the early days of Packet radio (ax25) that I had used in the early days a variant of which became a staple for managing SCADA (System Control Automation and Data Aquisition) signals on site that I was working on in my working life. I was involved in the specification of technical standards for equipment, their deployment and operation for a major regional utility.

These days I listen more than I transmit, my morse (CW) is somewhat slow due to the damage to my right hand from an accident in 2016, so if you hear me and want to QSO please QRS and bare with me 'Hi'. Satellite Amateur radio operation these days is somewhat more developed to with much improved computer aided tracking software and vfo (Variable Frequency Oscillator) control as well as rotator control for azimuth and elevation.

I am a member of Torbay Amateur Radio Society and The Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB)

Useful sites are QRZ.com for call sign look ups and the forums.

The latest solar and propagation information is shown below courtesy of Paul L Herrman (N0NBH) who can be looked up on QRZ.com and who's widget is displaying the information below. Click on the widget to see his site and other information.