Radio Station EA7/G4GCP
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Operator Nick Sheard.
QTH Andalusia, Southern Spain. E-mail: G4GCP.
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Married to Susie, who comes from 9M2. She has no interest in amateur (ham) radio - "Why does our house have to look like a ship?" - she asks. Visit The Sheards page and see our portraits. Arrggggh!!
Originally licensed as G8KLY in the early 1970’s, then G4GCP in 1976.
Always had a keen interest in VHF/UHF and have worked in PMR*.
Currently capable of operating on all bands 80metres to 70cms from Spain.
Enjoy the technical side of the hobby more than operating, particularly getting ex pmr VHF/UHF equipment going on our bands and experimenting with antennas. Also very much into computers.
Internet and Computer radio related usage has included dabbling with eQSO, EchoLink and Internet gateways in the UK. More recently CQ100 from QsoNet was tried. Although an early and enthusiastic adopter of VoIP for business and domestic telephony, I have yet to be convinced it has much of a part to play in hobby radio. The station was equipped for PSK31 operation in October 2008 and WSPR in January 2009.
The Station operates from our house in the Málaga Region of Southern Spain. The QTH is about 900 feet above sea level on the northern slopes of the Sierra de Mijas. The set up is a Kenwood TS140 or Alinco DX70 into a 6.75 metre vertical antenna mounted above the metal sunshade on our rooftop terrace, which, together with 10, 15, 20 and 40 metre band tuned radials, acts as a groundplane and has a clear take-off and low angle radiation in most directions. The antenna is tuned by an SGC Smartuner providing all band coverage from 80 to 10 metres. The station works well on daytime skeds with pals in the UK on 20 metres SSB, with 40 metres SSB and PSK31 contacts on 40 and 80 after dark. An Alinco DR-605E dual bander and a Motorola GM900, feeding a dual band antenna and a 70cms dipole respectively, on the house roof, take care of 2metres & 70cms. A groundplane antenna for 50MHz was installed on the roof in June '08, connected to the Alinco DX70, to enable operation on six metres and some good DX was heard and worked on SSB during the summer of that year.An FT50 was used successfully in South East Asia as 9M2/G4GCP on 2 metres in the past:
9M2/G4GCP
on Penang Hill with FT50
Antennas
in Spain
View north from our rooftop terrace
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* PMR = Private Mobile Radio, the name given to business radio in the UK.