Biography
see http://www.qrz.com/db/oe1vmc
Equipment
Rig: Yaesu FT-857D.
I like to experiment with HF digital modes and homebrew antennas: A vertical antenna of variable length which is easily tuned to one of the higher bands (20m-6m) using my flat almost square metal roof as a ground plane. Usually, I configure my vertical for λ/4 resonance, but in Spring 2016 I started playing with 5λ/8 verticals also. Sometimes I use a Sandpiper MV-6+3 shortened multi band vertical instead. In the backyard there is an inverted vee dipole for 80m/30m (which also happens to work for 160m, at least for European QSOs) and above my metal roof there is an horizontal eve-shaped wideband folded dipole for 40m.
For operation with portable rigs on UHF (70cm) and X-Band (3cm), I use the call sign OE1VMC/p or OE1XTU.