Hello, and thanks for stopping by. I hope we've had a chance to make contact on the air.
I got interested in radio in my teens and I've been an SWL since I was about 15 years old.
(Thanks to ON4CD to indroduce me in the Ham Radio world).
After I learned CW in the army while serving as a radio operator, I got my licence in 1969.
I am 65 years old. 44 years active in ham radio. Retired in 2005 from sugar beet industry.
My main interests in ham radio are :
- mostly CW (85 % of my QSO)
- QRP operation
- contests in CW
- Antenna construction and testing
Currently my main equipment is a Yaesu FT5000MP rig, a micro Keyer 2 and a Bencher Key
The logger is DXLab or N1MM during contest.
I also own a Yaesu FT857 (nice rig for /M or /P operation) used for home VHF/UHF trafic
and a FT817 for pedestrian QSO and for the QRP Contest
A 5 el. tribander FB53 Fritzel
A Butternut HF2V for 80 and 40 M
A G5RV
QSL policy:
Cards received by the buro are returned by the buro (every 6 month).
Cards received by post office with enough $$ or IRC and SAE are returned in the next day.
Please add $2 or 1 IRC and a SAE. Cards received directly without enough $$ or IRC or SAE are returned by the buro.
I also have each QSO directly uploaded (thanks to HRD) to eQSL, no LOTW
The picture on my QSL card above is the summer view in the neighbour of the QRA.
Half Wave vertical for 20M and Butternut HF2V for 80 and 40M
5 el. tribander
