G4ILO's shack

Welcome to G4ILO's Shack. I am Julian Moss, a UK licensed amateur radio operator or radio hamliving in Cockermouth, Cumbria, NW England. G4ILO is my radio callsign. For more about the hobby of amateur radio see my article What is amateur radio?

Above you can see my radio room, which we hams call the shack. Due to restrictions on outside antennas and other local difficulties I operate a stealth amateur radio station. All my antennas are hidden from outside view in the attic of our small house and I mostly use low power to avoid the risk of interference.

One of the aims of this website is to show some of the things you can do with ham radio even if circumstances dictate that you must operate covertly. If you like the site, let me know by leaving a message in the Visitors Book. Thank you! For more information about me and my station see About G4ILO.

In 2009 I began writing G4ILO's Blog. In June 2011 I learned that I have an incurable brain tumour. I started another blog, One Foot in the Grave, to write about my battle against this cancer.