Hi there! My name is Andy Gilfillan and I live  in Nottingham central UK. I spend some of my free time talking to other dudes around the world (DXing) on amateur radio bands. I've been into messing around with radio since 1983. I got my first ham license in Feb 1985.  I also like travelling abroad and sampling other cultures in particular the Arabic world and Spanish speaking countries. I speak Spanish (almost fluently!), and Arabic to a conversational level in both modern and Egyptian dialects. My great hope for the future is that all the races and creeds of the world can live together in peace!

  Clan MacNab Crest

My surname is of Scottish origin and means 'servant of  St. Fillan', the seventh century abbott who lived in Glendochart, Scotland. The name is also a sept of the Clan MacNab. After the Jacobite rebellion many of my ancestors ended up in Northern Ireland were they were to remain for the next 150 years or so.