3B7C Operators: 9M6DXX

Name:

Steve Telenius-Lowe

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British

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About Steve:

Steve was first licensed as G8FEO in 1970 while still at school. He received his first full HF licence while working in Iran in 1978-79 (EP2SL), after which a move to Sweden in the 1980s led to activity as G4JVG/SM0, with frequent side-trips as OH0/G4JVG. He took part in two expeditions to Market Reef in 1983 and 1987, followed by Cocos (Keeling) in 1988

Steve lived and worked in Papua New Guinea 1991-1994 and made around 45,000 QSOs as P29DX (P20A in contests). During this period he travelled around the Pacific with a 100W rig in 1992 and was a member of the 1993 VK9MM Mellish Reef DXpedition

After returning to the UK, he worked at the RSGB and was editor of RadCom magazine. He was a member of the organising team on the highly-successful 9M0C Spratly DXpedition in 1998 and a founder member of the Five Star DXers Association which put on the record-breaking D68C operation in 2001. Steve was joint editor with G3NUG of the DXpeditioning Behind the Scenes book

In total he has operated from 36 DXCC entities and 33 IOTA island groups

Steve moved to Sabah, East Malaysia, after taking early retirement at the age of 50 in July 2005, and is now active as 9M6DXX. He organised and operated on the July 2006 9M4SEB Sebatik Island OC-295 operation, an all-time ‘new one’ for IOTA. His most recent DXpedition was as XU7DXX from Cambodia in February 2007

He is still doing some free-lance book work for the RSGB, including editorial and production work on Circuit Overload (2006), RF Design Basics (2007) and the new RSGB IOTA Directory (published April 2007)

Steve only operates SSB, plus some RTTY on expeditions. He is married to Eva, 9M6EVA.