Biography

I was born in 1953.I became interested in electronics and radio as SWL whilst I was still at school.I was licensed as F6CFO in 1972.

I'm Senior process automation Engineer, graduated from CNAM.

I work mainly in HF bands (CW and SSB) and VHF (portable and mobile operations).

Sometime I'm on UHF or via satellite (ISS in APRS, SO50 and QO100)

Equipment

Station at home :
Tx :TS440, FT2900
Antenna : center feed antenna (2x11m)+ Antenna Tuner model F3LG (home made), or Mac Coy. 12AVQ for 20, 15 and 10 m bands, Diamond V2000, Bigwhell for 144 and 432 Mhz

Portable or mobile station :
TX : IC706MKIIG or FT857D or FT817 ND or KX3 +
Antenna : Vertical Antenna (fishing rod) with ATU AH4 or SG230 or FC 40 in very portable operation : or Buddipole or Buddistick antenna
VHF/UHF : Yaesu VX-8G or FT8800 with magnetic antenna (1/4 or 5/8 lambda) on the car (mobile)
For portable operation : same Tx with antenna :
-colinear biband
-or Yagi 4 or 9 elements on VHF, Yagi 7 elements on UHF
- Arrow antenna (home made) for satellite operation

QO100 station : DXPatrol Up Converter with DF9NP's GPSDO + 4W Amplifier+ Poty antenna in offset of Dish (Size 1.2 m). Reception :LNB (with TCXO) 10489 --> 432 , RTL-SDR dongle + SRD Console.