Welcome to 43DA379 Jim
March 21, 2010 by Darren
The Dx Adventure Radio Club is pleased to present to you 43DA379 Jim who is our latest addition to the team in Australia. A previous affiliate of the Thracian Rose (TRC), Victor Lima (France) and Delta Tango radio clubs respectively, Jim is one of 43 Division’s most practised and respected DXers and comes highly recommended from existing members such as 43DA162 Brett, 43DA021 Brian and 43DA225 Frank.
Joining DA-RC via the DX Chaser classification with more than 50 Divisions worked and confirmed to his credit (See http://www.delta-alfa.com/about/become-a-member/ ), 43DA379 Jim possesses a nice station which consists of an IC-718 by ICOM with a vintage Turner microphone which gets great reviews by all reports, a Uniden Grant (his old fave) for use on the citizens band, a Werner Wolf 5 element yagi for chasing international DX, and a Sirtel 5/8 wave vertical antenna for local comms.
43DA379 Jim’s home QTH in the Land Down Under is Park Holme. This is a lovely suburb of Adelaide in the City of Marion, South Australia with a population of just over 2000 people. Flanked by the Sturt River, the inner south-western suburb of Park Holme is within a brisk gallop of one of Adelaide’s racecourses, Morphettville, and is famous as being the home of one of the country’s leading Swim Centres.
Outside of the radio communications hobby which has been a major part of his life for the past 35 years, Jim enjoys spending time with family and playing Play station with his grand children. One of Jim’s passions is also listening to music and he is an avid collector of old records and tapes which he picks up as bargains from the local markets or second hand dealers.
“In the time available to me on radio,” says DA-RC’s newest face in OC-001, “I will promote the DA Club and its members as A1 class in Australia and overseas. I have many friends who are also members so it will be nice to join the team and use the callsign…!!!”
On behalf of the World HQ Team and everyone associated with the Club, welcome to DA-RC Jim. We trust you will enjoy making many new friendships within the Club and love using the call when chasing DX on the band.
Welcome to 43DA225 Frank
March 25, 2009 by Darren
One of Australia’s longest functioning eleven metre band operators, 43DA225 Frank is a passionate and enduring DX’er who has not only been active on radio for more almost 30 years, but is also considered a great mate by hundreds of radio operators all around the country.
43DA225 Frank’s QTH in South Australia is the pretty Adelaide suburb of Hilton in the city of West Torrens and from here he has developed a reputation on 27 MHz airways as being one of 43 Division’s most likeable characters.
In addition to former membership links with the Alfa Charlie and Delta Tango DX Groups respectively, Frank has worked in a leadership role with AC as his State’s Coordinator. During this time, he has also tallied up enough DXCC and IOTA entities to qualify for the DX Chaser classification three times over (See http://www.delta-alfa.com/about/become-a-member/ ), being a constant presence in the logs of most major DXpedition station logs in the past 20 years.
In addition to deriving much pleasure from the radio communications hobby, Frank balances a thriving private business in the building industry which he has owned for 39 years with a love of building model aeroplanes, as well as a strong interest in cars and motorbikes.
In fact, the first person in Australia to ever install and use a cb radio on a motorbike, Frank is a former Vice President of the famous Ulysses Motorbike Club and is still involved, advocating the country’s largest motorbike club’s initiatives aimed at supporting the older generation of rider in Australia.
Obviously, the spirit of adventure rings true with 43 Division’s newest team member as he has also travelled around Australia three times on a motorbike with a small trailer in tow.
On behalf of the DA-RC Headquarters Team (14DA911 Eric and 13DA007 Simon) and its growing team of practised dx adventurers, I’d like to welcome 43DA225 Frank to the Club and hope that he thoroughly enjoys the experience as a member of the world’s most innovative and original dx group.
Welcome to 43DA021 Brian
December 13, 2008 by Darren
The Dx Adventure Radio Club (DA-RC) is pleased to introduce to you our latest member from OC-001 who is 43DA021 Brian. Formerly 43AT021 and 43AT121 respectively, Brian hails from Ceduna in South Australia and is regarded as one of the Oceania’s finest and most successful DXers.
Famous for its mouth watering oversized oysters, Brian’s QTH Ceduna is located on the Far West Coast of South Australia, on the scenic shores of Murat Bay on the Great Australian Bight, approximately 800 km from Adelaide and 1900 road km to Perth. It is set amidst a patch work of grain farms, natural bushland and rugged rocky bays, secluded white sandy beaches and ever changing seas, making it one of the loveliest DX-stinations in the country.
With over 200 DXCC to his credit and countless IOTA and LOTA activations, Brian enters DA-RC via the DX Chaser classification and hopes to add to that tally courtesy of his monsterous 6 element yagi antenna when Cycle 24 eventually kicks in. Brian is also experienced with Special Event Station (SES) activities, having conducted a successful SES as 43AT/2000/H to commemorate the 2000 Sydney Olympic Games.
When he’s not in the radio shack and behind the microphone chasing most wanted DX entities, 43DA021 Brian loves to take to Ceduna’s beaches for a spot of fishing, chasing huge mulloway, flathead, salmon, trout, king george whiting, the odd big Snapper and Blue Swimmer Crabs. He also likes to get out to the coastline and admire the Southern Right Whales which migrate from the South Pole to the Head of the Bight to mate.
On behalf of all DA-RC members and the World Headquarters Team, welcome to the Club 43DA021 Brian.
