Andrew has been licenced since 1993 and an RSGB member since 1993.<\/p>\n
He first became interested in amateur radio as a youngster through his Dad, who bought him an FT690 Mk2 when he gained his licence. That rig gave him the DX\u2019ing bug on 6 metres and he says that he is still a 6-metre merchant at heart, despite becoming more broadly active on HF. His 6m activity up to year 2000 saw him apply for his first two RSGB Operating Awards: 50 Mhz Countries and 50 Mhz QRA squares awards<\/strong><\/a>. Apart from these, it is the Worked all Britain (WAB) awards scheme<\/strong> <\/a>that drives a lot of Andrew\u2019s operating.<\/p>\n Andrew\u2019s operating approach, focused on chasing specific awards, is described by him as \u201ctactical\u201d: in order to log QSOs with the stations required for a particular award, he thinks about the propagation paths and times of day that suit best, about the bands where contacts are most likely to be found, and then he does a lot of listening, seeking out the required stations.<\/p>\n On the operating front, Andrew has a list of awards that he wants to work towards, including completing the IARU R1<\/strong><\/a> and the 50 Mhz awards programmes<\/strong> <\/a>with his refurbished station setup.<\/p>\n Alongside the RSGB awards, Andrew wants to complete the WAB award programme as a homage to Martin PA3EHW, who was particularly keen on this, as recognition of his role, together with Andrew\u2019s Dad, in introducing Andrew to a hobby that he gets so much enjoyment and satisfaction from.<\/p>\n <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Andrew has been licenced since 1993 and an RSGB member since 1993. He first became interested in amateur radio as a youngster through his Dad, who bought him an FT690 Mk2 when he gained his licence. That rig gave him the DX\u2019ing bug on 6 metres and he says that he is still a 6-metre […]<\/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-27477","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-award-stories"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27477","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=27477"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27477\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27477"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27477"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/rsgb.org\/main\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27477"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}