Welcome to the new M0AWS Amateur Radio website.
I’ve been out of the hobby for 10+ years now and am only now starting to get back into Amateur Radio.
I lived in France for some time and was on air using the callsign F5VKM. Having many acres of land I was spoilt with large home built full wave vertical Delta loop antennas for most of the HF bands.
I’ve spent a lot of time on the 160m to 30m bands, mainly CW and digital modes but, since moving back to the U.K over 10 years ago I never bothered setting up a station again as I have a limited size garden and antenna unfriendly neighbours.
Having retired I was planning on travelling the world on my motorcycle but, since the world has been in the grip of the COVID19 pandemic since 2020 those plans have been put on hold.
Being stuck at home a lot due to various lockdowns and rampant infection rates I’ve decided that now is a good time to get back into radio!
At present I have nothing, no radio, no antennas, no PSU, no coax, nothing, so I’ve got a long way to go!
I’ll be designing and building all my own antennas and matching circuits and will be posting article on here showing my progress and results.
I’ve started researching radios and will definitely be going SDR and low power (QRP). Digital modes and CW will be the only modes I’ll use and power will be 5w or less.
I’m hoping to document things here as I build the new station so please drop by from time to time and see how it’s going.
More soon …