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My name is Penn, I was born in 1969 and live in a small fishing town called Brixham located on the south-west coast of England. In 1986 I dived into an outdoor swimming pool and sustained a serious neck injury which left me permanently paralysed and confined to a wheelchair. I have various hobbies such as angling, tropical fish keeping, computers and constructing and maintaining websites, and then of course amateur radio. I first became interested in radio in the early 80s when I used to use the citizens band frequencies. After I had my accident I then got back into CB and in 1995 I obtained my amateur radio licence. I now spend most of my operating time on HF, 20 m in particular where I enjoy talking to people all around the world. I use an ICOM 7800 along with a three element SteppIR directional beam antenna which is located on top of an 18 m heavy duty mast.

Another Ham Radio DXpeditiion to Heard Island

Saturday, 19 May 2012 Posted by G0VQY Category Amateur Radio Events and News 0 comment

It has been announced that there will be another DXpedition to Heard Island sometime in 2014.  Heard Island is a territory of Australia and is halfway between Africa and the Antarctic, in fact it's probably closer to Antarctic.  I remember the was an expedition to Heard Island back in 1997, unfortunately I didn't even hear them back then, I don't think the provocation was particularly good in 1997.  Even though we will have probably pass the sunspot peak, 2014 should still be quite good so hopefully I will be up to work them on several bands, they will certainly be welcome in my log but anyway.

You can find more information on their website

http://www.cordell.org/HD/

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