Biography

Born 1943,callsign since 1970.The photo of my city Alès(42000 inhabitants),taken from "oppidum de l'Ermitage" 290m asl. Altitude of the station is 150m asl. The mountain in the distance is "le Mont Bouquet" TV broadcasting area, 631m asl.Few years ago i had a UHF 9600 baud packet radio Node doing a link betwen SWITZERLAND (via F6BIG) and SPAIN(via F6KBR node in pic neulos) allowing us to navigate to EA9 AFRICAN node; it was the good time of packet radio

Equipment

Kenwood TS-590 + dipole antennas + 3el HB9CV on 6 meters.
Icom IC-7300
Kenwood TS-870
JRC JST-245, NRD-525 and NRD-535.
On VHF-UHF my old TS-700 and many VHF-UHF mobile rigs from Kenwood.
also from ICOM IC-260 , IC-490.