Greetings,
I acquired my Ham Radio License in early 90’s Limited (ZL2UXO) studied and passed my Morse so upgraded to full. (ZL1MY) This call sign was originally my Grandfathers so was good to be able to take this over. In the beginning I was active on both 2 meter’s and 70 Centimeters with a home brew 12 element ZL special for 2 meters and a vertical for 70.
Later I acquired a TS-120S and begun to be active on HF running a 4 element tri-band beam. Also involved with SSTV which enjoyed at the time.
Since I have moved around due to work and had been inactive for a period of time I have since became active again on HF and running mobile gear, purchased a FT-857D and have a FT-897D, running vertical antenna’s on the vehicle, ATAS-120a multi band vertical for HF and dual band vertical for UHF/VHF
Have also become active on the digital modes, DMR & D-Star although mostly on DMR, great modes and helps when you can’t have antenna’s up at the QTH.
Decided to get into portable operation and purchased the Sotabeam 20-30-40 and 80 meter dipole, this works great with the help of the Spiderbeam 12m fiberglass pole HD
I have been working with the guy’s in the US so that we can get Parks On The Air (POTA) active here in New Zealand (ZL) hoping to get this active soon, it’s popular in the states and hopefully people will get involved in it here as they do with Summits On The Air (SOTA)
I have also ordered the Silver Bullet 1000 TIA (take it along) antenna, thanks to K8MRD RADIO STUFF as Mike was testing this on his YouTube channel I strongly suggest taking a look at Mike’s channel as it’s great to see the testing etc he does. I’m hoping this will allow for even quicker antenna deployment in the field, they have some great reviews on this antenna.