Biography
Born: 1967 in Borlänge, Sweden.
Previous cities of operation: Borlänge (SM4ONT), Östersund (SM3ONT).
Current QTH: Kungsbacka, located 30 km south of Gothenburg, as SM6ONT.
Member of: SSA (Swedish National Amateur Radio Association). Radio clubs of Kungsbacka (SK6KY) and Gothenburg (SK6AG).
Licensed since: 1982. I was 15 years old and managed to get a C-license.
Back then it was a minor theoretical test and a morse test with 8 WPM transmitting and receiving.
The C-license was limited to CW for all bands except 10 meters were phone was allowed.
Military service: I did my conscript military service in 1987 - 1988 (15 months) as a radio operator and grabbed the oportunity to get my A-license.
It was a more extensive theoretical test and 16 WPN for the CW test. Then i could finaly use all bands with all modes.
Education: 4 year Technical College graduate (electrical and telecommunication) and Master Of Science in Informatics.
Current occupation: Working as a system analyst and developer.
Worked DXCCs:
Equipment
INFO:
Being away from the hobby more or less until 2024 i rebooted with a purchase of a IC-7300 and managed to put up a EFLW antenna in my HOA area.
Running mostly digital modes and warming up on CW. Not much of chatter guy!
I have built some LoRa units and routers which i find interesting.
Other interests is diving, mostly freediving and cooking.
EQUIPMENT:
HF tranceiver: Icom IC-7300
Antenna tuner: MFJ 939i Intellituner
Antenna: EFLW 27 meter inverted L at a higth of 10 meter.
SWR-meter: Daiwa CN-610
Coaxial cable: Messi & Paloloni Hyperflex 5
Bug: Bencher BY-1
CW Key: Handmade Swedish key by Lennart Pettersson #1405
Headset: Heil ProSet IC with IC-elementet for Icom
Foot pedal: Heil FS3
VHF/UHF Tranceiver: AnyTone D878-UV
VHF/UHF antenna: Diamond X-200N 144/430Mhz
QSL:
Electronic QSL is fine (LOTW, eQSL.cc, ClubLog).
For paper QSL, which i enjoy, please direct or via Bureau and i will answer the same way.
Regards and GL to you all fellow hams.