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Current operations:

Home QTH

Active 40m - 10m ssb and FT8
Tx/Rx: IC-705 + XPA125B
 or Elecraft K3
Antenna: Magnetic loop

HF Portable

Active 20m - 10m ssb and FT8
Various locations in Oxfordshire including several POTA sites.
Tx/Rx: IC-705 + XPA125B
Antenna: MP1 or other vertical

VHF Portable

Active 6m - 70cm ssb
Location: 3km south of Wantage
Locator: IO91GN
Tx/Rx: IC-705 plus...
  6m:  XPA125B
  2m:  BNOS LPM144-10-100
  70cm:  MML432/50
Antenna:
  6m:  Diamond 2 ele phased
  2m:  Diamond 10 ele yagi
  70cm:  Diamond 15 ele yagi

All G4HLX logs are uploaded to LOTW, eQSL and QRZ.com.

All recent G4HLX/P logs are in LOTW and QRZ.com.

GR4HLX

Special prefix used in May-June 2023 to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III.
841 QSOs in 70 DXCC entities.
All logs are in LOTW, eQSL and QRZ.com.


Neill G4HLX at home


POTA activation at Snelsmore Common (GB-0728)

In my shack 2005

Me in my shack, around 2005

History and interests

Returned to the air in December 2021 after many years of silence.  The following is a history of earlier operations:

First licensed in 1971 as G8EQX and then as G4HLX in 1978. Have been active on all 13 bands 1.8 MHz - 432 MHz, but my main interest is VHF/UHF, particularly DX and contesting.

2006-2013 living in Provence, France, and active on some HF bands as F5VLD, in Aix en Provence. Also sometimes active on D-Star, as G4HLX during visits to the UK, or as F5VLD by DV-Dongle.

Activities have included amateur satellite operation, using various satellites from OSCAR-6 through OSCAR-23 and AO-40. In 1980's wrote software for ZX Spectrum computers for receiving text bulletins, telemetry and images from UoSAT/OSCAR-9 and 11 with no hardware decoder. Over 600 copies of this software sold.

User of packet radio on 144 MHz since 1984, and for some years ran the Oxfordshire hub station for TCP/IP packet users on 144/432 MHz. Pacsat operation including 9K6 through UO-22.

In 1982 conceived the idea of the Practical Wireless 144 MHz QRP Contest, which in 1984 became the best-supported VHF contest in the UK of all time. Ran and adjudicated this contest for Practical Wireless magazine annually 1982-2007.

Tutor of Radio Amateur Examination class at Harwell Education Centre from 1981-1993.

Member of:
   Radio Society of Great Britain (RSGB) since 1968
       (RSGB Regional Representative, Region 6, 1985 - 1988)
       (RSGB Liaison Officer, Oxfordshire, 1988 -91).
   Harwell Amateur Radio Society (Vice-chairman 1982 - 87).
   ARRL.
Formerly member of:
   Réseau des Émetteurs Français (REF)
   AMSAT-UK
   South Oxfordshire Repeater Group.
   UK Six Metre Group
   Oxfordshire RAYNET Group.
   University of Birmingham Radio Society (Chairman, 1976 - 81).
   South Birmingham Radio Society.
   University of Manchester Amateur Radio Society.
   Radio Society of Harrow.
   BARTG
   Ridgeway Repeater Group.

Transmitters, receivers, and transceivers that have been part of the G4HLX/G8EQX station at some time since 1971:
IC-705, K3/100, K2/100, IC-E92D, FT-857D, FT-847, IC-505, TM-732E, IC-T8A, FT-726R, TS-780, IC-32E, IC-202S, FT-101ZD, FR-50B/FL-50B, FDK-750E, TR-3200, TR-2300, 19 set, PCR-2, T1154, SCR-522, PF-2, PF-70, CQM-5662 and at least 5 other ex-PMR, plus various homebrew transmitters, receivers and transverters.