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The G3NGD Amateur Radio Website
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 ©Photo taken and processed by G3NGD
G3NGD operating his Amateur Radio Station, located at the family home in Fleetwood  - 1960.
The Receiver (top left) is a Marconi CR100. 
The equipment in the steel rack (Right hand side) was all home constructed. 
The Transmitter (Middle right) operated on the 160, 80, 40, 20, 15 and 10 metre bands AM
and used an 807 Power Amplifier Valve. The power output was approx. 60 watts.
The Transmitter below operated on both 160 and 80 Metres. The Power Amplifier Valve 
was a TT11 giving an output power of approx. 8 watts. At that time, there was a maximum
input power limit of 10 watts on the 160 Metre band.
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     The G3NGD Semi-Vertical Antenna for 160/80/40 metres.
     History of Amateur Radio - the first fifty years.
    History of Amateur Radio - the second fifty  years.
    Amateur Radio in the New Millennium.
    G3NGD's Home-built & Modified Equipment since 1958. 
    Test Gear, Oscilloscope Waveforms and Misc. Items.
    G3NGD's early days of Radio, Television and Electronics.
    The Chatterbox Transmitter and Receiver built by G3NGD.
    The G3NGD Version of the ZX81 Microcomputer.
    QSL Cards from around the World - to confirm contacts.
    The Radio Station, Call-sign 2ZY at Trafford Park. 
    Software Written by G3NGD for Students [Free of Charge].
    Amateur Radio Software by G3NGD [Free of Charge].
    The Radio Station G4FXP and Electronics Servicing ERA.
    G3NGD at Trafford Park Manchester. 
    G3NGD at Fleetwood in the 'Sixties'.
    G3NGD's 12Volt Stabilized Power Supply Unit.
    Repairing the YAESU Transceiver Model FT-101E.
    The Drake R-4C Communications Receiver. 
    Thirty Years on: YAESU FT-101E to the YAESU FT-450. 
    Why is Amateur Radio known as HAM Radio? 
 
 
      To send me an E-mail, my e-mail address is as shown above.
        I have shown it like this to prevent 'Spambots' reading it.
 
  The  information  on  my  Website can  be used as
  RESOURCE / REFERENCE  material  when  I  am  in 
  contact with my 'Amateur Radio Friends' world-wide.

  I have made contact via Amateur Radio, with Radio
  Amateurs in excess of  'Two Hundred Countries'  of
  the world since I was first licensed in 1958.

  When two Radio Amateurs are in contact (anywhere
  in  the  world),  the Internet makes  it  possible  to 
  present visual  information  that is  relevant to  the
  conversation. 
                                                                       
 
    The Home-built Transmitter and Receiver [All Solid State], built and currently used by John, G3NGD.
 

 
 
                                                
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Last Year, John celebrated his Golden Jubilee of holding his Post Office Amateur Radio Certificate and also holding the Callsign G3NGD. The years 1958 - 2008 spanned the years from his Apprenticeship at Metro-Vick, Trafford Park, Manchester to his Retirement; Amateur Radio played a major role throughout this period. It was mainly due to his interest and encouragement in Amateur Radio that John became an Electrical Engineer. Later, upon gaining the University of Manchester Teacher's Certificate, John became a Lecturer in Electrical and Electronic Engineering. John wishes to express his sincere thanks to all those Radio Amateurs who contributed to his enjoyment and success during FIFTY years of Amateur Radio (not to forget the years prior to 1958 as a Short-Wave Listener).
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If you haven't got a Communications receiver, click your mouse on this link:WebSDR Communications Receiver 
This will enable you to listen to Radio Amateurs communicating on the Eighty, Forty and Twenty Metre Bands. 
This will give you an opportunity of finding out what Amateur Radio is all about. 
The Website is provided by Radio Club ETGD PI4THT at the University of Twente, The Netherlands.
I have only included this link for your interest, and all thanks and credits go to the University.
 
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    Thank you for visiting my Website - - - - which was last updated November 2009.