I was born in London in 1950s. My late father was an avid Short Wave Listener and built his own valve receivers to start with, so I got an interest in radio and electronics from that.

My QTH is Cowes, and have been here since first licensed. I am 1km from the sea in a residential area about 50m ASL. WAB : SZ49 I do not have a clear takeoff from NE to SE as my antennas are below nearby house roofs.

I used CB in 1980s and got my Amateur Radio license in 1990 as G7GXK (UK Class-B VHF and up only). I started on 2m FM, then in 1991 got a Kenwood TS680s and a few months later a 6m 6 element yagi that I still use today.
I was very active on 6m and joined UKSMG #2131. In 1993 I started using Packet a lot on 2m, this continued until 1995 when the "Internet" started!
In 2002 I obtained the call M3ERI which allowed 10W on HF. I used M3ERI on HF until 2003 then after that the regulations changed and I was allowed to use HF with G7GXK.

I have not been very active in recent years but in 2020 I started to try WSPR and then in June 2021 after obtaining a PC to Radio interface I started using FT8.
I find Pskreporter usefull for seeing where I am being heard.
I upload logs to LoTW, Clublog, eQSL fairly often after I have been active. I recently spent some time converting my old logs from 1991 onwards so they are now uploaded too (although I had a mix up with date format - month and day got swaped in some cases). I was involved with a local Amateur Radio Club G3IW but it is now inactive. For several years I also helped with Marconi related commemorative stations and used the call GB4JAM.