Biography

Retired electronic engineer (military radars and countermeasures).

I am living in Le Vésinet, a green suburb of Paris, a famous model of "Park-Town", designed from nil in a royal hunting forest in the middle of the 19th century. Le Vésinet shows 5 lakes, 4.5km of artificial rivers (artefacts), 5 historical monuments. See on Google-Earth following the link of my place and visit http://www.levesinet.net. An outstanding place of which I took care for 13 years as a deputy mayor prior to taking my "2nd retirement" in 2008.

Find me in JN18BV63VX/64VA or N 48.89167 E 2.14O78

Le Vésinet is a sister-city of Outremont (QC,Canada), Oakwood (nr Dayton OH, USA), Unterhaching (Germany), Worcester (UK), Hunter's Hill (Australia) and Villanueva de la Canada (Spain) : so many friends in the world !

I am mainly interested in HF DX, all bands, SSB, RTTY, BPSK31/63, QPSK63, JT65A , ROS, OLIVIA, HELLSCHREIBER, DRM and SSTV. Digital modes are 95% of

my recent activity.

Keen of fine propagation prediction (use Prolab-Pro V3 software) keeping long-lived an old know-how as I have been, "in a previous life", at the head of the Electromagnetism and antennas modelization department of Laboratoire Central de Télécommunications in Paris. I hardly confess that I have been working on some such "nasty" systems as HF and VHF radars . !

My newwebsite : http://f2lz.net/index.php. Please write some nice words in my guestbook.You will find there a selection of my logbooks since 1959 (DXCC registered cards) and my complete recent logbook since 2007 onwards which I usually update at least weekly except for received QSLs which are updated later. In case your QSO is not recorded, please advise me (typing mistake in the logger ?).

You can also become my friends on "Facebook"

ECHOLINK Node 402602.

Member : ARRL, Réseau des Emetteurs Francais (REF-Union), CLIPPERTON DXClub (life member). Digital Modes Club#2117. PODXS 070 Club #949. EPC#9340 FR94 Pacific -DXers #104

Licenced since october 1959.

DXCC Phone 339/368. DXCC RTTY. WAS. WAS-RTTY. DTA. DUF Excellence

---QSL 100%--- via Bureau & LOTW. Certified e-qsl & direct upon request

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Equipment

My toys: Yeasu FT DX 9000D coupled to an SDR-IQ and SpectraVue software, Alpha 87A amp., AT-AUTO Palstar, 4 elements SteppIR 20m to 6m @23meters, delta loops and sloppers on low bands, K9AY receiving loop, MixW2.20 and MultiPSK, WSJT6, MMSSTV, ROSv4.0 and EasyPal softwares on Pentium doublecore computer with RigExpert+ interface.

Using Kenwood TS180S while portable in south Brittanny.