Welcome to my amateur radio site.  I'm Graham Kimbell, first licensed in 1964 and living in West Lydford, Somerset (IO81QC). My interests are mainly 6m (50MHz) and 4m (70MHz) – propagation, working dx and homebrew.  I also go in for contests now and again, and I'm also on 80m.  I'm occasionally a corresponding member of the RSGB Propagation Studies Committee - see their website.
 
My longest distance contacts by band and propagation mode are (cw or ssb):-

Band / Propagation	Tropospheric	Aurora	Sporadic E	F2
4m	GM4ZUK/P Scotland 649km	SM6PU Sweden 1116km (cross band)	EA8/DL3GCS Frontera, Canary Islands 2897km	-
6m	GM4ZUK/P Scotland 649km	OH3XA Finland 1866km	PJ2/DJ9ON Curacao 7308km	VK4ABW Australia 15469km
20m				ZL3KB, New Zealand 18994km

My current countries totals are:-

* minor grid squares eg IO81

Band	Countries	Confirmed	Grids*	Comments
4m	33	33	117	Two way ssb and cw since 2007
6m	145	134	457	Two way ssb and cw all time

My first 4m QSO was on 9 August 1964 (on AM). My first QSO outside the UK on 4m was with ZB2VHF (Gibraltar)on 3 June 1968.  I've nearly lost track of the number of 4m rigs and transverters I've built - the current one is described on the equipment page. You can read more about my interests and find some historical recordings on the history page.

My first 6/10m cross band QSO was with EL2AV (Liberia) on 18 October 1980.  I started operation on the 6m band proper on 1 February 1986 when the band was released generally to amateurs in UK.  Six is a specially interesting band because of the many propagation modes possible.  I have written articles on transatlantic Es, Aurora and Meteor Scatter.  See the propagation page for more info.

You can contact me by email - g3tct (at) g3tct.co.uk

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