Biography

Born 3 january 1947, and have been a radioamateur sinse february 1972. Living in an old summerhouse in the forest, in the south part of Sweden, close to the Danisch border. Living by my one as a batcheler with my five cats, driving a Chevrolet Trailblazer LTZ, and have too a Volvo V70 and a motorcykel BMW 850.

I did start my workinglife in the radio-tvbusines but was coming over to work with cars ond forklifts after only one year.
I have been working with mechanic equipment in the industri, the most part of my life. I have worked with English cars, (British Leyland) and forklifts (Clark), driving a lorry for a short time, and I had my own firm in the taxibusiness, for a couple of years.

I did my military duty in the army, as carmecanic at T4 in Hassleholm, between Maj 1966 until Mars 1967.

The last years, I was working in the computerbuisniss, and the work I did, was building registers for spareparts and preventing maintenase for production machinery, on a factory in the worldwide glasconcern Saint Gobain France. For this work I was using the computersystems, Idhammar and SAP. I was working 33 years for Saint Gobain.

I am now retired since 1 mars 2011. Now spending my time, to do absolute nothing. And I realy like it.

E-mail:mats.elof@hotmail.se Skype:svennep2 Tel:0706 273064

Equipment

Hf-trancivers: Icom IC-756 PRO, Yaesu FT-847, Icom IC-720A, Sommerkamp FTDX-500 (tubestation).

Microphones: Icom SM-20, Icom SM-5, Icom HM14.

Matchbox for hf:Icom IC-AT500, MFJ Versa Tuner III MFJ-962D.

Antennas Hf: Dipols for 80/40/6 meter, Windom for 80/40/20/15/10 meter.

Vhf/Uhf (home):Yaesu FT-7800 / Icom IC-251e.

Vhf/Uhf (In car): Icom IC-7800H.

Vhf/Uhf (Reserve in car): Tokemat TM218 (from China).

Vhf/Uhf (walki talki): Icom IC-W32E.

Antenna for VHF/UHF: Kombiantenna ground-plane.

Antenna for VHF/UHF IN CAR: Kombiantenna for 144/432 Mhz.

Most aktiv on hf:80 meter.