Biography

Hello, thank you for checking my page.

I was born in 1959.

My interest in radio transmission goes back to the early Seventies when I became fascinated by the MW offshore pirate radio stations, in particular Radio Caroline with her "album format" transmissions at night. A Grundig 2053W radio from the Fifties was my companion. I soon discovered that besides broadcast there was a lot more going on on that radio. In 1980, after purchasing a Sommerkamp FRG-7000, I became an avid SWL (ONL5810).

In 1988 I've passed the technical and CW tests and obtained the callsign ON7AH.

Unfortunately, in 1999 other pursuits had to be given priority, and I became inactive. I never imagined at the time, it would be 16 years before I would be back on the air again.

In September 2016, after a house-move, I was able to return to the hobby. Now I am running a modest HF station.


Member of:

UBA

TRA

DIG 3998

Equipment

Transceivers (I prefer the older equipement. They don't make them like this anymore!):

Kenwood TS-870 (2000)

Yaesu FT-1000MP (1995)

Kenwood TS-180S (1980)

Yaesu FT-7B (1979)

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Icom IC-7200 (2011) for digital modes (mainly FT8) and portable operations



Audio:

2 x Kenwood MC-50

Yeasu MD-100

2x Kenwood SP-230

Kenwood SP-31

Sennheiser HD 280 Pro



Antennas:

Dipole for 40 m band

6 band G3TXQ Hexbeam by MW0JZE with Create rotor on a 9 m military telescopic crank-up mast - https://www.g3txq-hexbeam.com/
38m inverted L end fed - 9/1 UNUN

All my baluns and UNUNs are built by ON7FU - http://www.on7fuferriteapplications.com/



Antenna tuners:

DU-3000T by HA8DU

Daiwa CNW 419

Yaesu FC-700

LDG IT-100 autotuner