Maritime Mobile activity reported by our Friend Geoff POWELL – M1EDF

Our good Friend OM Geoff POWELL from QTH Staffs – U.K. served the British Royal Air Force and Hitched lifts covering thousands miles on, now retired in his home QTH is a very active Radio Operator following expecially Maritime Mobiles around the world. Since few months his radio setup is made up of Icom IC-7400 and long wire operating with 80 watts on CW. Geoff sometimes makes special callsigns activation to remember “SEA FACTS & ENTERPRISES”, I suggest to visit the frequently updated Geoff page on QRZ.COM entering his c/s M1EDF, you can see a large excellent pictures of /MM collected in his amateur radio activity.

I include now the last QSL cards images sent me by Geoff with details of his QSO’s with the following /MM:

Qsl card from Oleg callsign UR5FA/MM , ships name “Greta Selmer”, CW contact on 12th Dec 2014 at 09.14 Zulu on 10 Mtr (28.036 Mhz) band CW mode. PSN was off coast of Taiwan.

Here is another / MM QSO off Quebec Canada…. the MV Diamantgracht…, for a change I used a new Radio for Xmas an IC 7400 on mode SSB ,instead CW 10 Metre band, 28.480 kHZ  at 18.05 ,13 Jan 2015… as apposed to my normal CW operating… 589 with 40 watts output from Versa tuner and Doublet at 50 feet…

Dear Geoff, many thanks for all your updates about your /MM traffic, you are always very welcome and we stay tuned for new infos!

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