I have been licensed as G3ZDG since 1970 and for many years was active on the HF Bands with various items of home-brew and commercial SSB/AM equipment with a keen interest in mobile operation on the 80, 40 and 15 metre bands.

VHF interests in the late 70's mainly lay in the operation of RTTY and data using home-brew hardware/software.

Since the 1980's I have not been very active, mainly limiting operation to the 40 metre band using a Yaesu FT-747GX transceiver and G5RV multi-band dipole above the house and anchored to trees at either end. Now that I am ‘semi-retired’ I have no excuse to become more active on the bands again!

I have been a member of the Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) since 1970. They represent the interests of the UK amateur radio fraternity and ensure that our regulatory assignments are maintained at a time when there is increasing commercial pressure on frequency spectrum.