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John Petters - Callsign G3YPZ

I have been licenced as G3YPZ since August 1969. I discovered Amateur radio at the age of 13 when my uncle, Barry Bond gave me an old WW ll Marconi CR300 receiver for my birthday. I discovered the local amateur (ham) net in Harlow, Essex on 160 meters. The chairman of the net was old timer , Ernie Read, G3ERN.

I met Les & Hilda Cox, G3PRN & G3YEB, who along with Fred Adey, G3TLF, assisted with my studies for the City & Guilds Radio Amateur's Examination, which I passed in May 1969 and the Post Office twelve words-per-minute morse test.

I have been a keen morse and telephony operator since then, using both homemade equipment, including the fabulous Elecraft K2, which I built in 2003 and my vintage AM equipment.

I am regularly active on most bands, using a large cubical quad antenna, designed and built by my long term friend, Ron Home, G8CTZ / M0ETE.

I have regular contacts with Bill Tomlinson, VK1WT, in Australia and occasional contacts with John Evelyn 8P6FE in Barbados, who I fist met when he lived in England during the early 1970s.

I wrote several articles on the 28Mhz band for Practical Wireless, Amateur Radio Magazine and Radio Communication, the journal of the Radio Society of Great Britain. Last year I had an article on operating on Amplitude Modulation published in the same magazine.

I hold a 5Mhz permit, which enables me to experiment on the temporary 60 meter band. I have also recently become active on 70Mhz, using a transverter designed by G8CTZ.

Many jazz fans and some musicians are radio amateurs. The two interests go well together. Below are some photographs of my cubical quad antenna and my radio shack, where I am often to be found when not playing the drums.

More information on amateur radio is available on the RSGB Web site available here.


Cubical Quad Antenna
Cubical Quad Antenna

 

 

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