Hi Everyone out there in amateur radio land

My name is Debbie, radio callsign 2E0BAF. I live in a town called Carlton, which can be found on the eastern side of the wonderful city of Nottingham, England. Home of the legend that was Robin Hood and the place that the English Civil War started in August 1642 (many years before I was born apparently!).

I have been licenced since May 2005 and hold a UK intermediate licence and at the moment I’m not planning on upgrading to a full UK licence any time soon.

I’m currently running a Yaesu FTM-500 into a Diamond D-130 Discone antenna which I use for wideband RX and 2m/70cm TX into local repeaters and a little local simplex.

I also use a Yaesu FTdx101MP and the M1 mic for my primary HF rig, which is a dream radio combination for those DX QSLs into a Ciro Mazzoni Baby Loop and a Yaesu G-450c rotator. This is giving me contacts across the entire world. While the radio will do 200watts I tend to run it at 50-90watts most of the time.

I also use an Icom ID52E via a Zum hotspot and like to have my Icom IC-R15 and AOR DV-10 scanners sitting in the background monitoring local repeaters, civil/military ATC, local services like the bus company, PMR and all manner of digital/analogue signals.

73s, take care and see you on the bands