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Im a 37 year old telecommunications engineer from Melbourne. I grew up in greensborough, not to far from the simpson army barracks at watsonia, back in the early 1980’s they had a large norad dish on site, and many antennas as the base is a key signals training site for the australian army.

I think this is a picture of the dish!

This got me interested in radio, along with a short wave radio, I spent many nights listening to signals form all over the world.

My high school had an active ham radio station, vk3ie and I helped run this over the years. I acquired an old yaesu FRG7 receiver and moved into CB before getting my Limited class license in 1994. I became vk3xas.

It also lead to my career. Designing and Optimising mobile phone networks.

In 1999 I moved to Sydney for work and became vk2two and then in the late 2000’s vk2xe. I moved back to melbourne with work in 2010 and am now vk3bq.

My main interest is VHF/UHF weak signal ssb activity, though my station currently is very modest. One day ill get a big yard and a tower and put up a decent antenna 🙂

And I am a 6m (50mhz) tragic, having worked from vk2 to. V31pc in Central America from the car in 2001!!

I have made sure my car/mobile set ups always work well, as I spend most of my radio time in the car!

I enjoy contesting and field days, and am discovering the digital modes, as they seem to give me the best bang for buck for my limited antenna setup!