Biography

Welcome, well, I'm original from the "Old World", out of the middle of Europe-AUSTRIA.

I started Ham-radio back in Vienna, Austria in the early 60's. After settling in the USA, in the late 70's, I got interested in Ham radio, again.
I enjoy digital-communication (PSK31, RTTY, etc.) I'm running an APRS-WX station and a stand alone ECHO_LINK Node # 273835 (145.650 MHz).
Hope to hear you on the air, good DX and 73 de KF4KUL (Udo)

Other interests are, Photography and Road racing (Le Mans-type), some times F1 ... and enjoying life.

Equipment

Yaesu FTdx-1200 driving a brand new Ameritron AL-80B. Antenna: AV-680 with a remote MFJ-998RT (1.5 kW) remote auto-tuner.
Yaesu FTdx-3000D with a SDRPlay receiver and a Raspberry PI-2. Antenna is a 43 feet vertical (with 160/80 m switched loading-coils) and a MFJ-926B (200 watt) remote auto-tuner.
Yaesu FT-847 with a FC-20 (auto tuner) into a multi-band dipole, mostly used for PSK31.
V/UHF:2 Beams (SSB),for 2m and 70cm and an UVS-300 for FM.

ECHO LINK station (145.650 MHz stand alone) node # 273835. Radio: YAESU FT-2980R with external cooling (dual-fan, temp.controlled), antenna: UVS-200, interface: AMI-II. Remote-control radio is a BTECH UV-5001 (70 cm-446.075)

WX-APRS station Radio: Yaesu FT-2900R (low power settings to 10 watts), antenna: Ringo Ranger ARX-2B, Computer: DELL running ubuntu 18.04 LTS with xastir 2.1.7

For deployment: ARES or CERT, or just for outdoor fun:

EmComm-boxes: 1st. for HF-Voice_ALINCO DX-SR9T, plus 2 MFJ-4125 power supply and a Kenwood TM-G707A for 2m/70cm FM (Voice).

2nd. for HF-Digital_ALINCO DX-SR8T (modified power output for 50 watts), plus 1 MFJ-4125 power supply, DELL Laptop using FLDIGI/FLMSG.(Window version)
Kenwood TM-281A with an AEA TNC for APRS, Win2K or other digital FM communication.
Both boxes are GATOR 6U types.

"Rapid Deployment Box" Radio is an Icom IC-7200, MFJ-4125 power supply with a 25 Amps power-gate for Battery charging and battery use. SWR meter plus 12 VDC-injection (RC-100) for a LDG RT-100 remote tuner. The box is a GATOR U4 type. I have an IC-AH4 long wire tuner, also.