Biography

Bio:

Electronics, IT, DIY and music for all my life. Love cars, motorcycles, motorboats. And on the top of it Ham Radio of course.

Most of the time I'm active on 20m band using digital modes due to my working conditions. I'm living in a flat on a second floor so I can't go crazy with my antennas. Got an inverted V made with 0,14mm2 Heluflon wire attached to my balcony and the nearest trees and the choke balun. Not the best but it works and sometimes I'm lucky enough to make a QSO with the other side of the world. 

For some outside operations I prepared a setup with a 10m telescopic pole, CG3000 and LiFePo4 battery pack. And it works really great.

Other than that I'm also usually listening on UHF at SR5WP repeater and C4FM either Poland room or America link. For that I'm using FT-897 and FT-5D.

The latest addition to my setup is the new linear PSU. It was made back in 1987 and I was able to purchase it second hand for a decent price. It needed some attention but still worked. So I replaced all the semiconductors, main capacitors, gave it a good cleaning and now it is serving me well for all the radios that I have here. The only downside is that it is heavy and reaches quite high temperatures but no noise from that. It is driven by LM723 and has two big transformers inside. Haven't seen more than 0,04mV voltage drop. It is way better than my previous server PSU HSTNS-PL18.

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

Radio:
-Yaesu FT-710 (hell of a rig. Love it)
-Yaesu FT-897D (briefly replaced with ftm-400 but was lucky enough to get it back. I'll never get rid of this one)
-Yaesu FT-5D (great sound, a lot of features. Overall a good hand held radio. Works with Sony WH-1000XM3)
-Baofeng UV-82HT (5W) (as simple as it gets but does the job)

Antenna:
-Diamond X50N
-Diamond MR77
-Diamond SRH771
-Inverted Vee (5m wire each arm connected with balun 1:1 based on Wippermann project) or vertical for a field QSO's on -Spiderbeam pole 10m

Accessories:
- QRM Eliminator
- CG-3000 (mostly used for an outside operations)
- MMDVM hotspot
- Sennheiser SC660 + DIY PTT button or standard MH-31
- PSU: 1987 Elektro-Automatik EA-3033 complete overhaul done
- Backup or travel PSU: HSTNS-PL18 @ 13.6V
- RigExpert AA-30.zero + Raspberry pi zero (My DIY project)
- Spiderbeam pole 10m