Biography

All began in 1981 with my grand father's walkie-talkie, on which I would listen to citizen band. Later bought a short-wave portable radio and listened to "number stations" and attended the end of cold war listening easten Europe stations. Perfected my English accent with the BBC as well.

Started citizen band in 1993, and planted an 8 meter-high pole in my parent's garden ;)
After 3 years of 11m DX activity as 14CYB01, stopped due to moving into a flat in town, with no antenna installation opportunity. Put an old 11m balcony antenna for SWL with a FRG-7700 and had great times listening HF broadcasts all around the world.

Licenced HAREC in 2020, I'm glad to share my passion with open-minded people, HAM community is amazing !

Equipment

At Home :
Icom IC-7300 100W
Modified vertical antenna (loaded for shortening, 2.7m whip)

Portable setup :
XIEGU G90 20W
Half-size G5RV

SWL activities :
Yaesu FRG-7700 with its FRT-7700 antenna tuner.

VHF/UHF listening:
SDRtouch decoder on smartphone with SDR dongle and 200mm vertical whip for 30 MHz to 2000 MHz