ham radio from New Zealand - ZL4AP amateur radio station

<body bgcolor="#000000" text="#FFFFFF" vlink="#000080" alink="#00FF00"> <h4 align="center"><font size="3">Located in Invercargill New Zealand the worlds most southern city, this is the ham web site for<br> Amateur Radio Station  ZL4AP.</font><br> <a href="http://www.webfactor.co.nz">website designers Webfactor</a><br> </h4> <p align="left"><font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">My first interest in  ham radio was in making contact so followed up the idea of obtaining an amateur license , sat the required exams and managed to struggle through the amateur 12 wpm ZL4AP . Morse CW . This was in 1973 , the first radio was the Yaesu FTDX 401 zl4ap . decent antennas , and I enjoyed building ham towers, my first tower was a telescoping one to 70ft extended with a homemade hydraulic ram , an old lorry hoist pump was driven with an electric motor to lift it. I soon started to tower experiment with tilt over , self supporting , rotatable, and lattice towers , and ended up building and selling between forty five and fifty towers to all parts of New Zealand . The main interest over the years has been making long distance DX contacts on 80 mx . mostly working DX ham radio stations in England G . ZL zl zl4 the phased 1/4w verticals for 80 m. I am now using a single 1/4w antenna at 63ft. high  for 80m.and a KLM. KT34XA on another home made tower , this is on our qth at Invercargill.  Present equipment includes the Kenwood TS830s driving the Heathkit SB220 amp and Yaesu FT1000MP driving the Henry remote amplifier.  Computer is a Pentium with Windows 98. CD-ROM has a disk with about 1.2million callsigns to refer to zl4 zl ZL . I have started a wrought iron business , making all manner of things  <a href="http://www.smithfield.co.nz">Smithfield Metal Craft </a> <br> 73    Rob </font></p> <p align="left"><font face="Verdana,Arial,Helvetica" size="2">Rob Smith ZL4AP<br> </font></p> <p align="center">This page uses frames, but your current browser is not  supporting them.<br> </p> <p align="center"><a href="http://www.gore.net.nz/zl4kf">ham  radio</a>  <a href="http://www.gore.net.nz">amateur radio</a>  <a href="http://www.zl4kf.com/">New Zealand amateur radio - ham radio station ZL4KF</a>  zl zl4 zl4ap</p> </body>