This is the website of Tom Read M1EYP, bass player, mathematics teacher, freelance writer, hillwalker and radio amateur.  Click my photo above to email me.  Please sign the guestbook!

Jimmy M3EYP and Tom M1EYP hiked the Pennine Way in July/August 2006, in aid of local children's charity Friends For Leisure. Click here to see more.  We also competed the Gritstone Trail in July 2007.  Click here.

Tom & Jimmy's Northern Ireland (GI) SOTA tour, March 2008 ... Pirate BBC Essex webpage, photos & video ... Gritstone Trail walk 2007 ... Pennine Way walk 2006 ... SOTA 'Summits On The Air' pages for each of the 195 summits activated ... Latest summits - Easington Fell SP-012 (Cheese & Wine / Cream Tea) ... Gyrn Ddu NW-050 ... Yr Eifl NW-075 ... Mynydd Rhiw NW-064 ... Carn Fadryn NW-058 ... Garn Boduan NW-066 ... Carneddol NW-068 ... Ben Nevis WS-001 ... Cruim Leacainn WS-344 ... Druim na h-Earba WS-339 ... Watch Hill LD-054 ... Gummer's How LD-050 ... Great Mell Fell LD-035 ... Scafell Pike LD-001 ... Hallin Fell LD-043 ... Place Fell LD-027 ... St Sunday Crag LD-010 ... Fairfield LD-007 ... Red Screes LD-017 ... Stony Cove Pike LD-018 ... High Street LD-011 ... Yr Aran NW-019 ... Snowdon NW-001 ... Y Lliwedd NW-008 ... Moel-y-Gest NW-067 ... Featuring photographs, logs, directions, walking routes, local information, pubs, food and more ... QSL pages complete for all countries, Alaska to Zimbabwe ... New QSLs will be added as and when received through the letterbox ... NEW:  XFM Manchester ... GX0OOO/P in rare WAB area OV00 ... Radio Gibraltar ... KBC (NL) ... Radio Mistletoe (NL) ... Feile FM (Belfast) ... Touch Radio (Tamworth) ... Power FM (Canaries) ... Roots FM (Bolton) ... The Severn (Shrewsbury) ... Heart 106 (Nottingham) ... Seven FM (Ballymena) ... Red Sands Radio ... Big L 1395 ... Town 102 (Ipswich) ... BFBS Northern Ireland ... Smooth Radio (Nottingham) ...  My radio awards and certificates ... Frank Zappa CDs ... FZ books ... Marianne's artwork ... Tom on Countdown! ... Macclesfield Town FC programmes, books + memorabilia ... Galerie function band webpage ...