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Austin, M0MNE has a very appropriate call sign for a mariner (Merchant Navy Engineer)!<\/p>\n
Austin first became interested in radio through hearing short wave broadcast stations. Even as a young teenager he was exhibiting the experimenter\u2019s curiosity of a radio amateur, stringing up different lengths of wire in the garden to improve reception.<\/p>\n
Teenage and early career pre-occupations delayed his pursuit of a licence until his early 30s. With the guidance of Warren, G7MWB he studied for and obtained his Foundation licence through the Angel of the North Radio Club<\/strong><\/a> (MX0GGP).<\/p>\n Receiving support during lockdown in 2020 over 2m and Zoom, Austin went on to obtain his Intermediate licence, studying whilst at sea as a marine engineer on Liquid Natural Gas (LNG) vessels. This has led to him also joining the Royal Navy Amateur Radio Society (RNARS) <\/strong><\/a>combining his radio and maritime interests.<\/p>\n Awards chasing has given Austin a focus during his development in amateur radio. As a Foundation licensee, he achieved the Foundation Silver award, and has then progressed to the Intermediate 100 and IARU Region 1 Class 3 awards, each being an incremental step forward in his operating achievements.<\/p>\n He has also acquired awards through other special event activities, such as YOTA (Youngsters on the Air)<\/strong><\/a> and WARD (World Amateur Radio Day)<\/strong><\/a> In fact, his very first award was the WARD 2020 special event Silver award from the Spanish national society URE, operating as M7AVX with 10 watts into wire dipoles.<\/p>\n He is now particularly interested in working SOTA<\/strong><\/a> as an activator and exploring satellite working, aiming to achieve SOTA and AMSAT<\/a> awards.<\/p>\n \u201cAwards give me something to aim for despite having less than favourable working conditions at home, and it’s quite a challenge with a modest station.\u201d<\/strong><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Austin, M0MNE has a very appropriate call sign for a mariner (Merchant Navy Engineer)! Austin first became interested in radio through hearing short wave broadcast stations. Even as a young teenager he was exhibiting the experimenter\u2019s curiosity of a radio amateur, stringing up different lengths of wire in the garden to improve reception. Teenage and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":20358,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[386],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-27473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-award-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/20358"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=27473"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27473\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}