Biography

I'm SWL for more than 30 years, by choice. Radio reception is my main interest, RX only ! My particular interests are DXCC, Iota and islands chasing, RF and antenna experiment, Sat, Ms and EME on VHF/UHF ...
Member : ARRL, IOTA, REF, Robinson Dx Club ...

More about my SWL station : https://f10255.fr/



QSL
Your QSL is welcome ! via direct (I send mine with SAE and 2 usd), buro, email or e-qsl.
E-qsl.cc is fast, free and save trees !
Don't forget SWL stations on e-qsl.cc ; automatic upload is not valid for us. Please take half a minute to reply to my e-qsl.
ClubLog OQRS neither LOTW are not valid for SWL.
I need your QSL because I collect DXCC entity on all bands (unfortunatly DXCC award is not available for SWL ; my current DXCC score is 335 hrd / 334 cfm, (needed 3Y/P, KH7K, P5, VK0 Macquarie, ZL8) and I collect islands for IOTA and national islands awards.

Hope to hear you on the air, 73 ! Stef

Equipment

RX :
JRC NRD-545 (HF), ICOM R-75 (HF), Kenwood TS-2000 (HF-VHF-UHF - Inrad filter 92 inside), Airspy HF+ Discovery (HF-VHF), vintage Yaesu FRG-7700 (HF), RTL-SDR (V-UHF), Amsat DL converter (QO-100)


ANTENNAS :
HF : various home made antennas, 37,5m end fed wire @ 7m, vertical on ground 6,50m, snake 100m, active antennas, LZ1AQ crossed loop, PA0RDT mini-whip on 160m, home made Flag with W7IUV LNA.
VHF / UHF : Comet GP15 for 6m, 2m and 70 cm, discone on V-UHF, home made QFH for Weather satellites 137 MHz, home made DK7ZB 6 EL 144 MHz + LNA NF < 0,2 dB for EME (yes it works !), Dish offset 0,85m + LNB Twin Octagon Green for QO-100.


DATA :
- Intel Pentium 6 Core I5-9600K 3,7 GHz (Ram 16Go) sound card Sound Blaster AE5-X (122 dB SNR) Win10
- Intel Pentium 4 Core I5-750 2,67 GHz (Ram 12Go), sound card Asus Xonar D2X (118 db SNR) Win10
- Home made interface
- MiniTiouner-S (ATV on QO-100)