Biography

I was SWLing since 1958 when I was 14 years old. Amateur radio not allowed in Indonesia at that time. Using some homebrew receivers, I was able to listen to radio station on short wave bands from all over the world.
I have been licenced in amateur radio since 1969 and the callsign was YB4GA. On behalf of the Club Sation of the ORARI (The Organization of Amateur Radio of the Republic of Indonesia) Call Area 4, I was also hold the callsign YB4AA
I love homebrewing, so the necessaries knowledge mostly have been got from several edition of ARRL's the Radio Amateurs' Handbooks,and of course, also from a lot of another resources.
Shortly after the licences I made a 3 band ssb transmitter running 100 watts from a pair of 6146's and combining it with Hallicrafter S-86 receiver and a multiband fan dipole and a 20 m vertical, I was hooked on hamming and have been doing it ever since.

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

HF
Yaesu FT-401S, FT-101E Atlas 210X
Antenna : Gorundplane, Dipole