zl2tw

Stuart Watchman, ZL2TW, hails from New Zealand where he began his early career working for the New Zealand Post Office on telephone exchange equipment, then made the transition to medical school, becoming a physician.  Ham radio was an early passion leading Stuart to work in technical positions to pay for medical school and later to leadership positions with the New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitter (NZART), New Zealand’s “League”.  ZL2TW shares his amateur radio experience in this QSO Today.

First License:  1980, Grade 3, VHF and UP
Favorite operating mode: CW at Field Day and SSB

Terms
ARRL Handbook
New Zealand, Post Office Telegraph and Telephone
Telephone System Crossbar Switch
Crystal Set
TI TL780 version of LM380
AC128 PNP Germanium
Human Physiology
Barry French ZL2H
Kenwood TS-520 HF Transceiver
Strowger Switch – Step
British 2000 Telephone Switch
Number 5 ESS Telephone Switch
Plessy TXE2 Telephone Switch
The Winterless North of New Zealand
Icom IC-215 FM Transceiver
Pye Cambridge Mobile 
RSGB VHF Handbook
2 Meter Quad Antenna
Stirrers Award from the New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters
Wellington VHF Group
New Zealand Association of Radio Transmitters (NZART)?
Jock White ZL2XY Field Day
Burnishing Tool
Japanese Crossbar Telephone Switch
NEC NEAX61 Switch
Falkland Island War, 1982
Icom IC-2A VHF Portable
Christchurch Earthquake
Duneden Otago University, Medical Intermediate
Full Metal Jacket
Tait Mobile Radios
Sir Angus Tait
John Cleese Monty Python
Yaesu FT-100 HF Transceiver
Kenwood TS-130 HF Transceiver
International Lighthouse On The Air Weekend
Break-In Magazine
Amateur Newsline
RSGB Radio Society of Great Britain
New Zealand Amateur Radio National FM UHF System
Cactus Intertie
NVIS Antenna
Icom IC-7300 HF + 6 Meter Transceiver
Icom IC-701 Transceiver
Heathkit SB-104
Collins S Line
HP Signal Generator

Excited most by: Availability of technical information from the Internet, and parts. 

Advice to new or returning hams: get involved in a radio club with like minded people.