Biography

I have always been interested in radio, radio signals and how they travel etc and I have always been fascinated by with using just the simplest of communication devices one could talk with other people around the world. In my youth I would listen and transmit on 1,9 MHz radio but I slowly lost interest due to immature operators and worked more with shortwave listening and using various scanners for listening to local UHF/VHF frequencies as well as HF bands and found it vastly interesting.

I first got licensed back in 2009 as a Technician (UA4PRO). At some point kids and cell phones came about and Ham Radio went on the back burner. Recently the interest came back and I upgraded in 2019 to a General license and wanted a another call. Now my call R4PES.

I also work a lot with computers and enjoy the new technology that is continually being released with regards to amateur radio and always thrilled at seeing what's new for the future.

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

I have recently been working on the shack and other equipment but have settled on Kenwood. Decided on a Kenwood TS-850V abt 100 wtts in the house as a base and a homemadecross needle meter. With all the the old homemadecross transceiver UW3DI-2 and UA1FA has been rather confusing but I did pick Kenwood TS-850 / TS-590SG / SunSDR2pro .

On the roof you’ll find a Delta Vertical on 10-160m Band antenna.

transceiver SunSDR2pro
transceiver TS-590SG
PA HF Amplifier 1000 WATTS (GK-71 x2)
antenna Delta 160m 80m Vertikal