I became interested in radio at school and started listening first on Top Band with an army surplus WS19 and a transistor radio re-tuned from the medium wave broadcast band.

Originally, I was licensed as G8LFJ in January 1976, and over the next year or so became interested in DX on 2 metres through to 23 cm. I realised that some of this DX had to be worked on the key and wanted to join the VHF net on 20 metres to arrange skeds via meteor scatter. That meant I had to pass the Morse Test, and I acquired my call sign G4MCU in June 1981.

My passions were and are spread between Sporadic E, meteor scatter and aurora as well as tropo “lifts” around Europe. In fact, I am extremely interested in VHF propagation in general,

A change of circumstances in the mid-eighties caused me to go QRT and I returned seriously to amateur radio at the beginning of 2018.

My main interest is still VHF DX.