43DA148 Pete

The Dx Adventure Radio Club (DA-RC) is delighted to introduce to you its latest affiliate from the Australasia region……43DA148 Peter.

A former member of the Alfa Tango DX group (43AT148) and still associated with the Nordstrand Friendship DX/QSL club in Norway, Pete is one of 43 Division’s most successful and proficient eleven metre band radio operatives, with an impressive 230 DXCC entities to his name in a hobby career spanning 25 years.

Situated some 105 kilometres north-west of the Victorian state capital Melbourne, DA-RC’s newest member hails from the city of Ballarat at the foothills of the Great Dividing Range, an area famous for its Gold Rush days in the mid 1800′s. 

43DA148 Pete’s QTH is also notable as the site for Australia’s only armed civil uprising, colloquially referred to as the Eureka Stockade but more correctly titled the Eureka Rebellion, which took place on 3 December 1854.  In fact, the event, in which 22 miners were killed, is considered to be a defining moment in Australian history!

Away from the radio communications hobby, Pete is one of his country’s leading aviation fire-fighters and has made some extraordinary achievements in the area of emergency management.

“It’s a good job”, says DA-RC’s most recent recruit in the Pacific Ocean area.  “I’m travelling quite a bit lately with my work (Brisbane, Canberra, Perth, Cairns and Adelaide mainly) due to a large project that I’m involved in but I gotta slow down so I can get some radio time!”

Like a few of the club’s OC-001’s members, Pete is a talented musician and often swaps the dulcet tones of his Kenwood TS570S transceiver for a keyboard piano — especially in his younger days when he jammed with a number of blues bands.

Now mellowed thanks to a wife and three young children, and closing in on the roaring 40’s, Pete looks forward to taking to the stage for DXpedition theatre now in the coming years.

On behalf of the World Headquarters Team and all members, welcome to the Dx Adventure Radio Club, Pete.  We hope to work your station soon on the band with your new Delta-Alfa callsign and look forward to teaming up with you for some dx adventure in the imminent future.

73 de Admin