Biography

Hello and thanks for looking me up,
I was born in 1966 and became a Radio Ham in 1994 with the call ZR4R and in early 1995 obtained the call ZS4A.I am active on 10,12,15,17,20,40 meter DX and local 80 meter.
I also do a bit of Satellite work UHF/VHF.Some 23cm EME, FT8 can also be heard from my station.My Qth is in Bethlehem in the North-Eastern Free State about 250 Km south of Johannesburg,+- 40Km North of the Lesotho border.

I do not do any Paper QSL Cards only for EME Work

I UPLOAD MY LOGS TO LOTW,E-Qsl, Clublog and Qrz.com ON A MONTHLY BASIS

Hope to work you soon on another band...............

73 de Rickus ZS4A ..

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

Current Station setup:
Transceiver:Kenwood TS-950SDX AND Kenwood Ts 2000X (Icom IC-706MKIIG FOR Mobile work 80-6m and 2m/70cm)
Amplifier:Yaesu FL-2100
Diwa LA-2180HK (144Mhz) 80-160W for SSb 2m and EME Transmissions.
Antennas: Butternut HF-9V 9 Band Vertical at groud level. 40+80m Inverted V antennas.
1,2m Oval Dish for QO-100 Sat running DX Patrol Upconverter and a 12Watt DX Patrol
Amp into a Pottie Patch feed.

Microphone: HEIL Proset-Plus Headset.
HEIL PR 781 Studio Mic