About The Station
Welcome to my website. My name is Desmond Mardle I have been licenced since 1984. My Station is currently based in Avery Hill south east London. I am active on HF from 40m to 10m with upto 100W. The antenna I use does not load up to well on 80m and top band but I am able to put a signal on those bands at a push if I needed to. I am also operational on 2m with upto 10W and 2W on 70cm with home brew transceiver. Operational using SSB/FM and Data modes PSK,RTTY can operate other modes avaliable in Digital Master (DM-780).
Location information
QTH Avery Hill SE London
Latitude 51.447841
Longitude 0.084195
Locator JO01BK
CQ Zone 14
DXCC Zone 223
IOTA EU-005 Great Britain
ITU Zone 27
WAB TQ47
Station Equipment
Asus ET223 i3 all in one PC Windows 10. HRD Logging and DM780 Digital modes.
ICOM IC751 100W 160m to 10m Standby Radio.
Yeasu FT991 100W HF 50W 2m/70cm has built in ATU but I still use my MFJ 949E. The 991 ATU works without any problem I just like control over my ATU.
4m Homebrew 25W FM
ATU MFJ949E 160m to 10m also able to tune 6m
Antenna 1 10m dipole center element in the vertical plane hanging from a curtain rail. Outer element is in the horizontal plan stapled to the skerting board.
Antenna 2/3 20m/40m dipole's stapled across the top of a 5m long wall each element is then taken down the wall with a 90o bend and stapled to the wall. 40m dipole is then bent 90o and stapled to the skirting board.
Both antenna are tuned against a series of counterpoises. Using these antenna's I am able to work 10m through to 40m from my first floor flat.
4m 1/2 wave vertical dipole in my kitchen.
VHF/UHF X-50 2m/70cm mounted in a rotor for support and sitting in my bath. 2nd 2m antenna is a home brew 1/4 wave sitting on the corner of my desk near the window.
QSL Information
I am setup to automatically QSL via eQSL. I can also use the Bruro or QSL direct if requested.