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Cessnock, NSW, Australia
Postal Address: C/ PO Box 743,
Cessnock NSW 2325, Australia
Email: vk2qh [AT] qsl.net, OR
vk2qh [AT] yahoo.com.au
Yahoo Chat ID: vk2qh
Windows Live ID: vk2qh
Hello, and welcome to my Home Page. My name is Martin Howells and I have been involved in radiocommunications since 1978(ish), and Amateur Radio since 1996. In late 2005 the Australian Government revamped our Amateur licence categories so I now hold an “Advanced” category licence.
If you would like to know more about Amateur Radio, what it is, etc, my information pages contain the basic information about the different licence categories in Australia, bands, emission modes, and such. If you want more information then have a look at my Links page that has links to some other pages of interest and information.
If you would like to know more about me and my family you will find information and some family pictures on the pages shown on the menu bar to the left.
So, thank you for stopping by, and I hope to catch you on the air some day soon!
73’s
de VK2QH/VK2UMJ
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They shall grow not old, as we that are left grow old. Age shall not weary them, nor the years condemn. At the going down of the sun, and in the morning. We will remember them. LEST WE FORGET! |
Recently I learned for the first time that my family lost two members during the Gallipoli campaign in World War 1. Two of my grandmother’s uncles (Crpl. Norman and Pte. Edmund Pittendrigh) were sent to Gallipoli, one being killed in action around the 6th August 1915 during the push at Lone Pine, and the second killed in action on 22nd August 1915. Norman was just 21 and Edmund was 19 when they died during those horrific days at Gallipoli. It is a shame to think that the memory of these brave soldiers may have drifted into oblivion if it had not been for my conversation with my grandmother regarding another family member from WWII. Now I can pass their stories onto my own children, who can keep their memory alive for many years to come.
Go to my Memorial Page to read more about these soldiers and their service at Gallipoli.
LEST WE FORGET!