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M8KVJ

First name:

David

Boyes

Address:

Ottery at mary

Ex11 1rl

England

QSL via:

eQsl, LOTW, QRZ, E-mail request, Online request

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 HI THERE FROM GLORIOUS DEVON ,BETWEEN THE SEASIDE TOWN OF SIDMOUTH AND THE MAD TAR BARREL ROLLING TOWN OF OTTERY ST MARY SEE LINK.

http://www.otterytarbarrels.co.uk

MY NAME IS DAVE,  

I WAS A FOUNDATION LICENSE HOLDER AND NOW AN INTERMEDIATE LICENCE HOLDER HERE IN THE UK ,BUT MY INTEREST IN RADIO HAS BEEN ABOUT FOR A VERY LONG TIME . IT ALL STARTED WAY BACK IN THE LATE 70`S WHEN I LIVED NEAR CLEVELAND OHIO ,USA.

 MY LINK WITH THIS COUNTRY GOES WAY BACK TO THE 1800`S WHEN MY GRAND FATHER DROVE THE DEADWOOD STAGE SEE LINK http://visitmt.com/listing/categories_NET/City.aspx?siteid=1&city=boyes 

WHEN I WAS INTRODUCED TO CB, I HAVE STAYED WITH THAT TO THIS DAY AND I AM STILL ACTIVE THERE, BUT ALSO UNTIL YEAR ,2010, I HELD A UK PBR LICENSE FOR PVT COMMUNICATIONS FOR 10 YEARS, I AM ALSO A UK RALLY MARSHAL SO MY COMM SKILLS WERE USED BY MY LOCAL MOTORSPORT CLUB AS COMMS CONTROL. I`M A BLACK BOX OPERATOR.

I AM SEMI RETIRED NOW DUE TO ILL HEALTH,AND NOW WITH  THE PASSING OF MY LATE WIFE OF 25YRS, WHO I MISS TERRIBLY. I STILL TRY TO GET INVOLVED WITH FARMING,  ALSO AFTER BEING A TRUCK DRIVER FOR NEARLY 30 YRS , AND STILL NO GOLD MEDAL, HI HI.

YOU CAN FIND ME ON ANY HF BAND AND ON VHF AND UHF NOW , I ALSO CAN BE FOUND SOMETIMES WORKING WAB, SOME TUESDAY NIGHTS  DOING THE VHF CONTEST  /P IN EAST DEVON , HAVE BEEN FOR SOMETIME AN AVID CONTESTOR MOSTLY RSGB RELATED AFS,ROPOCO,SPRINT UKAC AND ALSO IOTA WEEKEND, WHICH I HAVE NOW WON 2YRS ON THE TROT IN MY SECTION. ALSO I DO HAVE DATA MODES HERE PATICUALY FT8, ROS, BPSK 31, JST, METEOR SCATTER AND SSTV, SAT TRACKING ALONG WITH ECHOLINK AND APRS,M8KVJ-9, MOBILE,M8KVJ-5 OR 7 .PHONE AND M8KVJ-HF FROM HOME, AS WELL AS MONITORING CB, NOT JUST AT HOME BUT ALSO MOBILE, USING 2M/70CM WITH C4FM IN MY TRACTORS CALL ME ON MB6FT OR WHEN I`M IN MY VOLVO XC60 POLESTAR  ON 2M AND 70 CM AND ALWAYS LISTENING TO ANY REPEATER OR GATEWAY THAT I MAYBE PASSING. 

AND FINALLY MY HEART FELT THANKS MUST GO TO MY UNCLE AND HIS FAMILY,A SILENT KEY, GW4KVJ WHO WAS THE FINAL PERSUADER FOR ME TO ACTUALLY BECOME A HAM OPERATOR AFTER HE PASSED AWAY HE LEFT HIS REMAINING SHACK EQUIPMENT TO ME. AND AS A FINAL REQUEST BY THE FAMILY WAS TO SEE IF I COULD TAKE ALL OR PART OF HIS CALLSIGN. THANKYOU UNCLE JOHN GW4KVJ ,USUALLY MORSE QRP STATION.

in the shack  i have the C4FM YaesuFTM100d with Wires-X connected unattended gateway radio (MB6FT) on 144.8250mhz with presearch 144.6125 for the Otter valley covering out to the A30, and beyond, down to Exmouth and Honiton to the M5, usually connected to room cq-uk.

icom ic r7100 reciever on a vertical listening mainly on the air bands  hooked up to a 297ft long wire.

an Icom ic718 into a Mfj 969 tuner hooked to a vertical hustler 6btv.  mainly monitoring 5mhz sorry i cant tx there. there is a Hi mound 707 key.

icom ic9100 with a sm20 desk mike and a vibroplex rsgb centenary key {244 out of 205}a Dell Optiplex 760 running Hrd with hrd logbook which auto-writes to eqsl and hrdlog . spid big rak rotator is also connected to hrd rotator and works very well. for data modes usIing the dm780 program within hrd using usb codec so no need to have an external tnc. antenna`s as follows, a 3 el ultrabeam  a modified G5rv tuned with  a palstar AT1KM.

  a yaesu ftx1 optima with a yaesu md100a8x desk mike, a with a full size g5rv tuned with a vectronics vc300dlp

a yeasu ftdx 3000 witj a m70 desk mike witj a radioworks 160m carolina windom and a mono band 80m dipole

a purpose built pc car contolling both yaesu`s with an  array of software

i have 2 tower`s here a mobile 40ft and a 60ft versatower has a 3el ultrabeam and a 9el for 2m.

the old faithful Colt Excalibur wired to a vertical and a desk mike mainly used to monitor 10m.

then the vhf/uhf section firstly a Phillips fm1200 in a base station setting for 4m.

Kennwood tm v71e uhf/vhf.

my mobile setups

 tractor,new holland t7.210 has a yaesu ftm 200d for 2m fm and c4fm  and a cb.

the other,a ford new holland 6640sl plus a cb.

the mobile is a  volvo xc60 inscription pro polestar engineered with a  yeasu ftm 400 with a diamond nr770 for 2/70 anolague and c4fm