Welcome to G0HVQ's Website

Corse & Staunton, Nr Gloucester, UK
Loc IO81UX - WAB SO72 - UKSMG #353

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Hi, I'm Darrell ('Daz' for short) and I live in the villages of Corse & Staunton, near to the city of Gloucester and the spa town of Cheltenham, in the county of Gloucestershire. My QTH is right on the boundary of three counties - Gloucestershire, Worcestereshire and Herefordshire, also close to the Malvern Hills. I occasionally go /P from these hills as they are only 15 mins drive from my house.

Click on the Google Locator Map to see roughly where I am.

Current list of DXCC countries worked:

I'm also a keen VHF op, current list of locator (grid) squares worked on VHF:

Aerial view of the G0HVQ QTH from 2005

Wiki link to Tewkesbury - nearest town to me
Wiki link to Gloucester - nearest city to me
Wiki link to Cheltenham - local town
Wiki link to Malvern Hills - famous range of hills

I've been licensed since 1983 and started out on 2m. When the 6m band was released in to UK amateurs in 1987 I started to concentrate on this band, and have been there ever since. Currently up to 116 DXCC countries on 6m including exotics like DU, XW, YS and TI, all worked with a fairly standard 6m set-up - nothing big (yet!).

I've been at the current QTH since Aug 2005 and it's a superb VHF site, clear take-off to the North through East and down to the South, with only a few trees to the West. The GB3VHF 2m beacon (120 miles / 200km away) is consistently S6 here on a 9 ele yagi 20ft AGL. It's not bad on HF either, nice and quiet as no immediate neighbours (unless you count sheep!).

G0HVQ

• Station info and pictures
• Info on my contesting activities
• A bit about me

50MHz

• The 50MHz page
• G0HVQ 6m DXCC countries worked
• Some of the more desirable 6m QSL cards Page 1 and Page 2
• My top 5 6m QSOs
• The 6m gotaways
• 6m propagation notes from the last few solar cycles
• The world-famous WNLS contest group :-)

• The 144MHz page - locator squares & best DX worked

• G0HVQ portable operation

• Some info on South Devon where we holiday and it's coastline
• 2007 Lunar Eclipse photos

• Working hard in support of the 6m band, the UK Six Metre Group
• I prefer to eQSL if possible
• I also use the ARRL's Logbook Of The World
• One of my local pubs, and another one which is very important here in the UK!
• Local branch of CAMRA (beer club!)
• Local Goffs Brewery, brewer of my favourite beer (Jouster)
• Wye Valley Brewery, another local brewery

73 and hope to meet you on the air.

Page updated 1 Dec 2008