About Ian G3YBY / F5VKT and this site

This web site describes my Amateur Radio and Photography activities.

 

My main amateur radio areas of interest are HF DXing and contesting and I use the contest call G3Y in  contests when I am in England.

I also hold the calls F5VKT and TM5T (contest call) and operate from South West France for most of the year.

 

Calls held:

G3YBY from January 1969

G3Y short contest call from January 2011

TM5T contest call from May 2017

F5VKT since November 2005

V8FKT Brunei- November 2008

G3YBY/J3 Grenada - January 2004

Also operated as TK/G3YBY, CT3/G3YBY, EA/G3YBY and F/G3YBY

40m SSB Operator at TM0HQ in the IARU contest 2008, 2009, 2010, 2011, 2012 (Winners HQ section 2012!), 2014 (40m SSB & 20m CW)

I was a team member of the Five Star DX Associaltion (FSDXA) record breaking DXpedition to T32C in 2011

 

I am a member of:

CDXC (G),

GMDXG (GM),

CDXC (F),

BDXG (F),

REF,

REF47,

RSGB,

ARRL

Swindon & District Amateur Radio Club