About 

Hello I am Lawrie, I am 39 years old and I live in a small Town called Crediton near Exeter.  I work as a Freelance Photographer and Website Designer / Developer.  My hobbies include Amateur Radio, Photography, Urban Exploration, also I buy and sell on eBay.

Why Radio ?

It all started when my mum bought me a pair of Fisher Price walkie talkies and my Step-Uncle gave me an old radio receiver he has owned for years, on this radio receiver I could receive various ships moving about in West Cornwall and also Aircraft.

So in the early days I started with PMR446 Radio which was a licence free method to speak to each other with a small 0.5 powered two way radio, it was a limited range service of approx 2 miles if you were lucky.  I then moved onto CB – Citizen Band Radio and then in 2017 I became a Licenced Radio Amateur (Ham).

I enjoy making new contacts via 2m 70cms and HF, I equally enjoy using as little power as possible. This is known as QRP.

 

 
The Square at Crediton in Devon
Lawrie Richardson - M3UHQ

TRANSCEIVERS: HF QRP SDR TRANSCEIVER, (tr)uDSX Orange, Xiegu G106, RADTEL RT-890 – 2m 70cms in Yellow, Quangsheng UV-K5, ABBREE 2m 70cms Mobile Radio with Airband Receive and DTMF Microphone.

ANTENNAS: 40-10m HF Whiz Loop, 14MHz monoband whip antenna, 21MHz monoband whip antenna, Wimon 2m 70cms indoor / portable dipole, various other handheld antennas and military whips.

RECEIVERS: ATS-20 SWL Receiver MK2, SONY ICF-SW7600G

MISC: Anysecu VHF Marine Handheld, Intek-MT 446 ET, Pofung PMR446, Alan 441, Baofeng UHF Commercial Handhelds, Baofeng AR-152 Military Style Transceiver for 2m 70cms, Chinese HF Automatic Antenna Tuner for HF, Surecom SW-28HF SWR Meter, QRP Z Match ATU,