Born with a fasination
                for taking things apart to see how they worked, I recall removing
                the back of my fathers EKCO shortwave radio (below). By the age
                of nine I had discovered amateurs on the 40 metre band, and when
                a schoolfriend was given a homemade crystal set, I obtained the
                parts and built my own. This was followed by a series of one,
                two and three valve radios before moving on to an eight valve
                superhet; I even built a Spark Transmitter. By 1960, I had joined
                the local amateur radio club where I met some like minded school
                friends who talked me into taking the Radio Amateurs Exam.
                

                
I passed the
                exam in 1961 after a short period of self study, and continued
                to build receivers and transmitters whilst I tackled the morse
                code. I obtained the callsign G3TSO, one hour after passing the
                GPO morse test, on 30 October 1964. During the mid 1970s, I held
                a French reciprocal callsign F0GHI, and in 1988 after numerous
                US reciprocal licences, obtained the US Advanced call KD3CL.
                
This site includes
                a selection of photos of amateur radio events, and details of
                some of the radio equipment I have constructed. Few details exist
                from my early, and most prolific construction period, but by
                the mid 70s I had started to record some of the details. A number
                of projects were published in the RSGB journal, Radio Communication,
                and in the RSGB Radio Communication Handbook of which I was the
                author of Chapter 7 (6th Edition).
                
After 3 years
                in the radio industry, I left to persue my main interest aviation,
                amateur radio has remained very much a hobby which has proved
                very useful in the work environment.

              
 

              
 

              

                
QSL Cards used over the years

                

                  

                  
First QSL 1964

                  

                  
City of Peterborough

                  
 
                  

                  2nd QSL 1974
 
                
                

                  

                   
 
                   
                  

                   
                
                

                  

                  GB2CSA Cotswold Games 1988
 
                   
                  

                  
France Mobile F0GHI on local Postcards

                  

                
              


              
 


              

                
Current QSL Card
- 1983