I am active since 1977 and I graduated with advanced (superieur) license in 1978.

I do my own antenna installation and maintenance.

My goals is to get over 200 countries on all 9 bands.

Active on the main contest cw-ssb-rtty and of course dx chasing

I participated in two IOTA contest in Europe.

Not perfect location with some noise floor  and every 2-3 years I try a new RX antenna for 160m seen I cannot install any beverage antenna.

I do not chase for award and so far I got 163 coutries on the top band.

Radio: FTdx5000D, FT-897D

Antenna: Mosley PRO 96 (40 and 20-10m), homemade 5 elements yagi 6m.

Special double polarization (H-V) 80m antenna, 30m: delta loop 1/4 ŷ corner feed

160m: Shunt-fed 25m tower, resonance is lower than1.8 khz.

Amplifier: Marconi BH-30M, Ameritron AL-1500x 100% at 1.5 kw, 2 kw PEP AM

Both amplifiers are state of the art modified with soft start, soft-key, vacuum relay, optic bias coupling, HD power supply, safety control.

Tower: Trylon 400-80 (25m), Delhi (19.7m)

Station is full protected against EMP, lightning strike for RF, AC, internet, gas discharge module on all systems, dual bulkhead panels for coax.