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** All my ham activities are dedicated to my father F5CKM, sadly SK, who gave me this wonderful virus in the 90's. **

Chaser of multiple-band DX'ing + WAZ + WAS, as well as to IOTA and Antarctica, he must smile at me wherever he is now, when watching me fighing in pile-ups, getting up early not to miss the sunrise grey-line, trying to improve aerials, struggling with QRM and QRM'ers, etc....Thanks Dad !

Simple working conditions here
  • Transceiver
    • Yaesu FT920 fitted with both CW and SSB INRAD filters
    • TS450SAT as back-up
  • Antenna
    • 20 to 10m : 5B-HexBeam (Traffie's, the original one) at 30ft agl
    • 160 to 30m: Homemade Inverted-L (13m vert + 6m sloping) for 160/80/40/30m, with 48x 30-ft long radials
  • Amplifier
    • Steady AL811H driven for 500w out, fitted with Svetlana's 572b's
  • Keyer
    • "So-so" keyer double-paddle MFJ564, to be changed soon !
  • No PC in the shack, so QRV only CW / SSB (80%/20%) and paper log
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