Biography

Hi all,

Born 1965, I spent my youth in the departement "Moselle", north-east of France, near the city of Metz and soon interested in radio and electronics. I finally decided to become a serviceman!
Electronics engineer since 1985 during scolarship, I then after enlisted in the French Air Force. 33 years and few months later I got retired.

So, from 2018 on, I keep spending my time restoring cars because also easy in mechanics, repairing electronics, maintaining our home, sweet home and taking care of our two captivating french bulldogs...living in the amazing and fabulous south-west "Landes" département, well-known for its gastronomy, summer fiestas, ocean and mountains proximity!

Interested in radio communications for a long time now, I took advantage of my knowledge in electronics and my spare time to train from april to june, 2020 and passed the HAM operator exam (HAREC level) in october, 2020.
Got my callsign the 10th of november, 2020.

Since january, 2021 I enlisted in the "FNRASEC" (Fédération nationale des radioamateurs au service de la protection civile) through the département subdivision "ADRASEC 40" (Association départementale des radioamateurs au service de la sécurité civile). These are very similar to the US "RACES", British "RAYNET-UK" or other similar european lands groups, in their duties.

Morse learning is still in progress : I really want to get over the air that way too or even focus on other areas of interest: QRP, SOTA, digital modes etc.

There is so much to discover in the HAM world!

Thanks to have a look at my page!

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

I own at this moment three rigs in my shack (actually, also mobiles rigs in my cars and other portable radios) and a stunning (tr)µSdx associated to a home made EFHW multiband antenna:

- Icom IC-7600, replacing my IC-7400/ vertical HF home made antenna (in fact, a 25 feet high aluminium strand with an 1/9 impedance transformer sometimes strangely called "magnetic balun", designed to cover from 1,8 MHz to 52 MHz, it works good thanks to the ATU in the rig!), a modified "COBWEB" 6 bands antenna homemade (thanks to PA9X mods design - wider bandwidth 6m to 20m) and last but not least a ZS6BKW design antenna also home made and inverted V mounted at 10 m. APEX,

- Yaesu FT-902DM (donation from a friend!) I recently overhauled after some time in an attic, connected to a 53 feet horizontal long wire and 1/9 "magnetic balun" on the roof of the house,

- Icom IC-910H (recently upgraded with a 0.5ppm TCXO)/ vertical dual band & 2 yagis dual band (1 vertical position and 1 horizontal position), mounted on a homemade mast and elevation system,

- and last but not least a Yaesu FT-857D in order to build up a QO-100 portable station and probably a full duplex Ground Station to come to do the job.

The two recent ICOM rigs are connected to PC via HRD v5.24 software, as well as the azimuth rotator and elevation system through an ERC-M interface (DF9GR design and engineering), in order to be able to track birds, including the ISS.

And from january 2023 on, I'm QRV on QO-100 Sat through the Icom IC-910H (hence the recent TCXO upgrade!) and a 90 cm. parabolic antenna with homemade Tx HELIX antenna type from DM4DS design. The DX Patrol GroundStation is the heart of the system (including modified LNB and GPS antenna).