Welcome

Hello from the city of York in northern England (Grid Square IO93LW). I hold a full UK licence, M0EZP, which was first on the air in June 2004. My previous call-sign was M3EZP which I held the year before although I first sat the Amateur Radio exam in December 1975 failing one section and I left it 28 years before trying again!

I have three children with families of their own. I’m now semi-retired and still work in my business. My career has been in business computing and systems design and I’m a chartered engineer.

The photo above was taken at Bletchley Park in 2015 when I had the privilege of operating GB3RS, the callsign of the Radio Society of Great Britain.

My passion in radio was constructing my own HF transmitters, station equipment and antennas, which sadly I do less of these days. However, winning the CQ WPX contest for 160m England SSB four years running 2005, 2006, 2007 and 2008 was great fun. My biggest thrill was working VK7 on 40m using a simple inverted-V wire antenna with 5w sideband from the homebrew rig in the photo below – yes, it is a wooden case!

  • What is Amateur Radio

    Most Amateur Radio operators (Hams) are involved in Global communication; a great way to develop better understanding of geography, languages and cultures.

    Licences are granted after the operator has passed the appropriate examinations to ensure they have the skills to transmit relatively high power signals on many frequency bands across the spectrum, with minimal risk of interference to others.

    Many Hams enjoy the achievement of using equipment they have designed or built themselves - aerials, transmitters, receivers and test equipment.

    Amateur Radio is often used to provide emergency communications, eg. Haiti, the Indian Ocean Tsunami etc. In the UK, the Radio Amateur Emergency Network RAYNET provides communications to the emergency services in the event of emergency situations such as flooding after the loss of conventional telephone communications.