Welcome to my page.

I got a novice licence in 1980 and after more study and a lot of CW practice I got the full F license in 1988.
>he world opened and I started to experiment with antennas.
My home has a flat roof which is 40 meters long behind a steeper part.
So it has lots of room to mess with all kind of wire contraptions.
Because of a renovation of the house in 1999 I had to tear down all which caused a hiatus that lasted until 2010.

In 2010 I bought an Icom 7200 and made a new setup with separate coax fed dipoles without baluns since the feedline is at least 35 meters long on 80, and 20 meters for the other three bands with a reasonable SWR below 2.
For 160 I set up a 53M long Inverted L with a home brew tuner at the bottom as an all band solution.
After a couple years I bought an Icom 7300 and combined the the separate dipoles into a ladderline fed fan dipole for 160/80/40/30 Meter and set up a Diamond BB7V HF Vertical.
It is advertised as 80-10, but it's too short for decent radiation on 80 M.
Both feed lines go to a remote coax switch and a MFJ remote tuner.
That vertical got me active on the WARC bands.
A storm put the dipole section out of commission so I had to get back on the roof and repair the mess.
My preferred mode is CW on 160 meter.
So it is CW galore, beecause I can't differentiate between a politician and a barking dog on a good day let alone any bunch of overexcited DX-ers in a pileup.

Some of my 160 Meter History.
Just outside the city was the former location of the Clubstation PI4UTR situated in the 19th Century Fortress De Gagel.
The Fortress has enough room for a decent 160 meter Vertical antenna and 16 radials of 25 m each.
On that location I participated in the 1989 CQ-WW 160 Meter contest.
The station was a FT905 transceiver and a Racal 17L receiver.
The antenna was a 18 meter high Top-Loaded Vertical.
The wire topload and the groudplane took nearly 500 meters of 1.5 mm^2 (16 Ga) copper wire and while the fortress was surrounded by water must have helped a bit to get good results.
Using a 250Hz filter on the FT905 and the 100Hz Filter of the Racal did a great job copying the weaker signals.
That contest setup got me a 2nd place for PA and 89th place in the overall Single Operator 100 Watts section.

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AWARDS

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