Inducted May 1998
SK Date: April 24, 2022
Roger, G3SXW was well known as a DX-peditioner, contester, author and advocate of good amateur radio practices.
Born in Devon to ham-radio parents, he graduated in Business Studies and Languages in 1966. Being fluent in French and Spanish helped him develop an interest in overseas culture; the hunger to see and experience new places, to meet people from different cultures was fuelled by amateur radio.
Operating CW pile-ups on DX-peditions was Roger’s passion. For hours on end he could run huge, but always well-managed pile-ups. He had an uncanny ability to pick out full calls correctly, no matter the size and raucousness of the pile-up.
Roger’s work took him overseas to the Middle East in 1970. Roger didn’t obtain his Iranian callsign EP2IA until late 1977, but it won him several major contests before he fled.
Roger’s sense of adventure and language skills got him involved in contest expeditions to Africa and he became a founding member of the ‘Voodoo Contest Group’ legacy, which led to CQ WW CW contests from nine West African nations until 2012.