My name is Mike (aka Chally). I was envolved in Amateur Radio thanks to my Father "Alex", aka UR5ECV. Owing father's persistence it was a hard attempt for me (and him too) to learn Morse Code being 10 years old. But two years later, in late 1988's, I finally ran into the air with my rather slow CW calling "CQ CQ", and then collecting first calls. At that time our family radioshack consisted of old-time 200W military TX+RX called R-250 (not transceiverized) and a simple LW antenna.
It had passed pretty much time till I've taken a long awaited exam and got my ever 1st class licence, in Sept.1998. I usually work on 80M-10M using my favourite mode CW at 90% of time, SSB at 8%, and the rest for Digital modes.
Current equipment setup
RIG: Icom IC-7000 (100W) - main TRCVR; Elecraft K2 (10W) - second radio and for portable / country-side operation PC Interface: RigExpert Plus Software for digital modes - Fldigi, MMTTY ATU: MFJ-993B PA: UM-200 (200W) Antennas: mainly simple Dipoles; 2M-40M versatile dipole Buddipole™ by W3FF; Vertical AV-640 by Hy-Gain for 6M - 40M band; other
For /A and /P operations I use Buddipole (Rotary Dipole by W3FF) antenna and my beloved hot IC-7k. That's how it usually done (hi!):
.and when use "portable"
.and UR7EZ/A operating.
Not only for Data modes but also for major contests I use RigExpert Plus interface. For contests I prefer TR4W logger (thanks to Dmitriy, UA4WLI) and N1MM Logger, and for regular logging I use DXKeeper from DXLab suite. For TRCVR control I frequently use TRX-Manager (the best in its class! Big "thank you" Laurent!).
Apparently I help my brother Con (aka US5ETV) with new antennas design projects which would be a pain to tune without RigExpert AA-200 analyzer (really excellent piece of electronics!)
You can also view my Amateur radio photo album here.
Log data
To check if you are in my log (also for UR7EZ/A and contest QSOs) check it within ClubLog.
My QSL card is 100% via Buro (it's working good), or, if you wish, via Direct to the address above. When sending direct - no money needed, I will gladly send you my QSL the same way. If you never got my QSL for some contact, please don't hesitate to e-mail me withour QSO(s) data (or use ClubLog Log search with email request above) - and I will surely re-confirm our QSO(s). I fond of DXing, awards chasing (esp. for DXCC, IOTA, UIA, RRA, ULA, RLHA etc) and am a paper-QSL collector thus your QSL is much appreciable.
I do have eQSL account (AG) and update it some times per year. Not a LOTW member, sri.
See you all on the bands es 73's!
de Mike, aka UR7EZ
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