I have only had a transmitting licence for a couple of years now which I obtained with the help of the Dover and District Radio Club but have been an SWL since childhood. 

Hobbies and Interests

Other than amateur radio my hobbies include electronics, flying and robotics.  The current project I am working on is a UAV, Autonomous Unmanned Airbourne Vehicle, this combines most of my technical interests, and I’ve learnt more than I bargined for whilst doing this project.  There are details over on http://www.wildride.org.uk this project is using a tiny Linux computer known as a Gumstix operating on the arm chipset to fly a (normally) radio controlled plane about, rather than being controlled by a normal radio control transmitter, it is controlled with a laptop running a flight simulator that is hooked up the model itself.  It uses a 70cm bi-directional simplex link to communicate with the ground station, and a 2.4GHz downlink for video.  Navigation is accomplished by means of GPS, and waypoints that are set by the groundstation software.

Amateur Radio Operating

I mostly operate QRP, and am interested in VHF SSB, digital modes, and SSTV, and am occasionally found hanging out on HF.  I often operate QRP temporary with little more than the FT-817, a random wire, and the MFJ-971 ATU.

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Thank you for stopping by.  73 de M3OYQ.