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Click for more detail... I started my ham radio adventures while at high school by joining the school's radio club 5B4ES. I got my personal 5B4MF licence in 1982 at age 15. My main interests in Amateur Radio are DX-ing, Contesting and building antennas.
Station Description: Current station set-up comprises of Yaesu FT1000MP MkV with 6m transverter, Ten-Tec Omni VII and Kenwood TL-922 linear. For antennas I have a KLM/M2 KT36XA for 10/15/20m, a Cushcraft 40-2CD for 40m (also used for 17m), 2 sloping dipoles for 80m (East and West), 2 inverted-Vs for 160m, a 4el homebrew monoband yagi for 6m and a short beverage in NW direction. For logging I use my own logbook software which I wrote in Microsoft Access.
QSLing: I answer all QSLs received and verified by my logbook. Direct QSLs with self-addressed envelope and enough return postage (ie 1 IRC / 1$ for Europe, Middle East, North Afica and 1 IRC / 2$ for rest of the world) are answered directly (usually within a week). Otherwise they are answered via bureau. Bureau cards are answered via bureau. I send out bureau cards about 2 times a year. I also use LoTW where I upload my logs about 3-4 times a year.
DX-ing: When I am on the air DX-ing I try to listen to as far away stations as the conditions allow and then work my way to the stations nearer to Cyprus. Please respect this and don't break in when I am trying to listen for the weaker far-away stations. Remember what you feel like when you are trying to work a DX station and the DX station only works stations in his vicinity! Also remember that within the confines of my city QTH I have high noise and no special receiving antennas and therefore sometimes it is a real challenge for me to copy weak DX signals. especially on the low bands.
Here are my band statistics as of 6 Oct 2009:
I have worked DXCC on all 9 HF bands and I stand at 336/338 on the DXCC Honor Roll.
My near term DX-ing goals are to improve my DXCC entity totals on the low bands and 6m. I am also waiting patiently for a Heard Island DX-pedition and an XF4 expedition that will make special effort to work stations in my part of the world to reach #1 Honor Roll. Zones 1 and 2 on 80m will complete my 5BWAZ effort which has remained at 198 zones since the late eighties.
Contesting: When I operate in contests I use my contest call, H22H. I enjoy working in the SSB legs of the CQ DX, CQ WPX, CQ 160m and IARU contests with occasional multiplier handouts in other contests. To improve my contesting efforts I hope to soon start building a contest station in a remote field outside the city of Nicosia so as to escape from the antenna and QRM restrictions imposed by a QTH within the city. A 4-square on 80m is something I have been dreaming of for a few years now...
Special Calls and operations: Over the years I have operated the following calls: 5B25MF in 1985 for the 25 years of the Cyprus Republic H25MF in 1987 for the 25 years of the Cyprus Amateur Radio Society C40A in 1989 for the IARU HF Contest 5B40MF in 2000 for the 40 years of the Cyprus Republic H22H in contests since 1998 5B4MF/P on 16/17 August 2008 from Kiti Lighthouse CYP-004
5B4MF/P on 26 September 2009 from Ayios Georgios island, IOTA ref AS-120 (Coastal islands of Cyprus Group).
73 and CU down the bands. Spyros Last modified: Mon Oct 5 16:50:56 2009 Does this page contain inappropriate content? If so, Report this page... |
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