Name: Tony Canning

Call Sign: G0OPB

Nationality: British

T32 Responsibilities:
Station set ups and EMC

DXpedition Experience: 3B7C, 3B9C, D68C, 9M0C, 9M6TL, TS7C, GB50, M2000A, M0RSE etc.

Contest Operations: GB5HQ, GB7HQ, GR2HQ GU8D and several other IOTAs

Other calls held:

Club memberships: RSGB, CDXC and FOC

About Tony:  Merchant Navy Radio and Electronics officer where he sailed around the world over a period of four years.

A Radio Design Engineer for many years where he worked on equipment running from 1 Watt to 500KW over the spectrum from LF to UHF.  He is now Assistant Chief Engineer with THALES.

His first transmitter was built when he was 11years old, to a design from a very early book using a toy train transformer a car ignition coil and other salvaged/donated bits. Signals were herd by my school chum about 200m away as well as local television viewers.

A late joiner to the Amateur Radio hobby as work was suitably entertaining, but a chance invitation to NFD back in 1989 generated a rekindled interest and now enjoy chasing DX (with a new TX).  But he believes it's more fun to actually be the DX in a mult-station DXpedition like this one as it throws up a multitude of operational and technical challenges.