Biography

Born January 57. Licensed July 15 1974 at 17. Army at Cinema and Television Division. Worked as a radio engineer for marine radio HF / VHF (mainly Sailor SP Radio systems) and two-way radio radio (GE, Motorola, Pace, Midland, REPCO, Storno, Dancall, Standard and others). Presently self-employed in video inspection robotics and line location devices etc. Also works as a photographer and voice-over artist now and then...back to ham radio after a long absence. In 1974 it was 100% CW and QRP. Well, still is.

Equipment

Back in 1974, it was a powerful TEN-TEC Power Mite II, about 1.25 Watt output, to a vertical quarter wave military whip on 14 MHz. Home made keyer (from a Handbook project).

Today, more than 40 years later: a new, powerful TEN-TEC 1330 QRP transceiver,about 3 Watts output (that´s more than 3 dBs over 1974!!! yeah!) home built, God bless those guys from Tennessee and the other ones from Benton Harbor (miss them dearly, still have my grid dip meter...).Antenna is a simple dipole (inverted V) for the 30 m band.

One difference: still one single TCVER, QRP, but now I have 4 keys connected to the same radio:

One merchant navy finish straight key, one Vibroplex Original bug, one Vibroplex Vibrokeyer Deluxe (yeah...) with my call engraved on the base, and one Bencher iambic keyer, the last two connected a MFJ-492 Memory Keyer who lost its memory (just like the owner, in a way). I use them all. It´s like playing several instruments.