Alex McFadyen.                                                      SP32
26 Lewis Road                                                        IO91FW
Chipping Norton
Oxon
OX7 5JS

"It is not the class of license the Amateur holds, but the class of the Amateur that holds the license."

Hello and thanks for dropping by. My name is Alex and I have been an amateur since 1987. Like most Hams I didn't want to take the morse test but I certainly wanted to get on the HF bands So I got stuck in and after six months I got the pass I badly wanted. In those days I only had a long wire slung over the roof. It was extremely difficult to work all the exotic DX I could hear on SSB so I carried on with CW and worked it all that way. The result is that I carried on with the CW and now 75% of my operating is on the key. You certainly get more miles per watt with CW and if you think that this is a big plug for the merits of CW then you are absolutely right. So, go on, give it a go and perhaps like me you will learn a new skill and the world will be your oyster.

If you like you can e-mail me ... g0jze at qsl dot net

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     Station Details

Radios :
Yaesu FT767GX with 6m/2m/70cm modules.
Yaesu SP767 speaker.
Yaesu FC902 antenna tuner.
Yaesu FT897D for 6m/2m/70cm.
Alinco DJ180 for 2m
Kenwood TH215E for 2m
Realistic Pro 2006 scanner
AOR AR-3000A scanner

Antennas :
Jaybeam 3 El Triband yagi for 20/15/10 metres
W3DZZ for 80/40 metres
V2000 for 6m/2m/70cm.
5 El Yagi for 6m.
Inv Vee for 40m
160m dipole in the loft



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