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 G'Day folks, I'm the 43WR144, operators name is Pete. My CB handle/nickname is Pee Wee. I transmit from a small country town called Gloucester, in the beautiful Hunter Valley, NSW, Australia. I am the 'The World Radio Club' Coordinator/Director for the Oceania Region in Australia.

 I started this wonderful hobby back in 1976, with a little xtal am 23 channel CB. I got into SSB late 1977. Thats when I got bitten by the DX Bug & I've loved DXing ever since. I love to go portable DXing up in the mountains west of town or just a short drive up to one of the many lookouts around the area to work the DX.

 I also love building antennas & have built many over the years. Living in a small country town in the middle of the bush, I had no big shops to buy any antennas. A friend gave me the ARRL Antenna Handbook (1978). He told me to put 27.355 into the antenna equations to get the right lengths & dimensions for 11m antennas. The rest is history, I've been building antennas ever since. By the way, when I got onto the internet, it opened up a whole new world of radio for me. Especially the antenna programs, no more pen & paper & calculators, made life so much easier.

 As some of you have probably heard, I was busted by the ACMA Jul 1st, 2011 (Australian Communications & Media Authority).
I was issued with official warnings for

Section 46 - Unlicensed operation of radio communications devices
Section 47 - Unlawful possession of radio communications devices.
I had to dispose of the devices within 7 days & advise them I complied. " In this instance, the ACMA has used discretion and has chosen not to issue you Penalty Infringement Notices or escalate to prosecution, however, any future non-compliance will be viewed more seriously." I'm going to frame the 2 ACMA Warning Notices & put them up on the wall. So in a nutshell, I got a severe official warning. I had to post the RCI 2970 & Palomar Amp to Head Office in Melbourne.


So I'm back on air again with only the Cobra 146GTL 40 channel SSB in the mobile & the Uniden Grant with Kenpro Speech Processor for the base. The antennas are a 4 element home made yagi & a Shockwave .64w Ground Plane Vertical.

I DO NOT operate above or below the legit 40 channel CB Band, but anywhere in between.

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Photobucket - 43se144 - http://s200.photobucket.com/user/43se144/library/?sort=3&page=1

Ustream - Pee Wee's Radio Shack - http://www.ustream.tv/channel/DGZkrHbvfhX#itm_campaign=broadcast_interstitial&itm_source=skip

YouTube Pee Wee 144 - https://www.youtube.com/user/43se144/videos?sort=dd&shelf_id=1&view=0

Skype - Pee.Wee.144

Face Book - https://www.facebook.com/PeeWee144

You'll find me in the TWRC Video Chat Friday to Monday when I'm working, when on holidays, you'll find me on the chat just about all day, from around 6-7 am when I open the shack up, until around 5pm when I lock the shack up. Sometimes I get on the chat when I'm inside on the laptop. Feel free to pop in & say g'day.

73's and good DX to you,

43WR144 - Pee Wee.

 

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added my website url.
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