Amateur radio - introducing M0TCX (M6CTU)

M0TCX - I sat the full license exam on 1st April 2009 and a little over a month later, on 08 May, I got my new callsign. This is the last step in a three stage ham radio licensing in the UK and gives the owner some very useful privileges such as ability to work from abroad and /MM. My other callsigns include: M6CTU obtained in May 2008 and 2E0CTX received in October 2008. I'm a member of LEFARS Loughton and Epping Forest Amateur Radio Society and RAYNET The Radio Amateurs' Emergency Network.

QSL - Paper QSL via bureau and/or eQSL.cc as it's fast, reliable and free.

QRN - I've got lots of noise at my QTH from the nearby train station - day and night. Main suspect - a faulty power line insulator. Sometimes the noise level reaches S9+. I have only a few hours a week of operating time when the noise subsides enough to make a few QSOs. And the conditions change so quickly that quite often the bands go dead in the middle of a QSO. Please bear that in mind if I suddenly stop talking to you...

Bands - 40, 30 and 20m are the bands I frequent the most. I have made several contacts on 17, 15, 12 and 10m but with the conditions on these bands being poor we'll have to wait a little longer to use them more. VHF and UHF only when mobile, portable or abroad.

Modes - 80% my contacts so far have been made using digital modes; with PSK31 and RTTY being the modes of choice. SSB comprises the remaining 20%. One mode I find quite interesting is Hellschreiber. Unfortunately it's not easy to find it on air. If you'd like to sked a Hell contact, please drop me a line...

Website - This is my new project started in January 2009 and is still being developed. At present it includes information about my station, an Ebay used equipment price list and some resources I used when studying for my ham radio license.

73 de Piotr M0TCX