Welcome to the web site of M0KTY

New Home QTH Antenna - Testing a homebrew "EFHW" see Link on left for more details!

Check out some of my Videos on "youtube" just search for M0KTY

The Solar Terrestrial data is being shown courtesy of Paul Herrman. This should help in deciding which bands may produce the best results. Clicking on the data will forward to Paul's very comprehensive web site.

Thank you for looking at my web site.

Operational Update from my QTH in South East UK (May 2024).

When I started this web page  project in May 2010, after being fully licensed the expectation was to provide a home page for QSO reference.
The site development has progressed some way since then and interestingly followed the personal path of my learning, experimentation and experiences.

If you have any technical or interesting information, please email me (link in the left hand border) and I'll do my best to include it. Likewise if you believe that any of the information shown has errors or omissions please get in touch and I will review the documents.

I operate mainly on HF, 20 meters being my favorite band. I operate two transceivers from Yaesu and Kenwood radiating on home brew multi-band End Fed Half Wave (EFHW) aerial and a commercially produced Hustler 4BTV trap vertical for HF (10m, 15m, 20m & 40m Bands).

 I also operate on 6m, 12m and 17m, due to my QTH restricted footprint size I am unable to reach 80 meters.

I had a Comet  GP-3 mounted at high level and used this for the many 2m and 70cm repeaters locally. This was removed to make way for the new "Mighty Doublet" so I now only operate VHF & UHF from my car. Now the Doublet has been removed, the brackets just sit redundant. They will remain on the gable end of the house as I know one day I will have a "brain wave" and erect something different!

My main interest is in aerial modeling and construction and I use the 4nec2 software and the RIGEXPERT AA55 Zoom VNA.