Biography

Dear fellow YLs and OMs - Welcome to my page!

QSL confirmation and card exchange

For QSL confirmation, it is sufficient to do it in the QRZ.COM logbook or via LotW. No further exchange is required. Here in QRZCQ.COM, I upload my LotW coplete log every other month to stay current on the counters.

However, if you desire a real exchange of QSL cards, you can do that in preference via the post office.

Please send your QSL card to my address above as indicated. No SASE is required - you send me your card, I send my card back, we share the cost - no issue.

All valid QSL cards will be answered. All QSL cards will be verified with my log book entries. As I have just changed my place of living, new QSL cards will be produced in the second quarter 2023. So please be patient.

SWL QSL cards are very welcome, too! Please indicate with whom I have had a QSO on your SWL QSL card as a "must have" requirement. Reason: All QSOs are fully logged and I can check - however, unanswered CQ calls you might have heard are not logged at all, hence we both have no proof of authenticy and I need to discard your SWL QSL. Please, let us prevent that before it happens.

73 - Thank you very much!

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QTH information

My QTH is close to the "Chateau de Rambouillet" in gridsquare JN08VP.
I will sporadically activate our chateau and park as "Castles on the Air (COTA) resident".
It is registered under WCA as F-06262 and in the French registry as 78-019.

In case I have been QRV in a different country, please have a look at the respective log book with correct country and region prefixes as applicable. Up to now, DL/F4JKH and EA4/F4JKH are active.

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I can modify the antenna to be resonant for 6m, 2m and 70cm. An extension cable for 80m, 60m and better 40m performance is available as well.

Generally, I am QRV in HF between 40m and 10m at the moment.

The performance is approximately 12 dB - two S-levels - below an external rooftop dipole in transmission in average. Maximum transmission power is around 50 Watts in FT8 and FT4 for most of the upper bands, up to 100 Watts for 40 meters. So there is a good chance that I hear you louder than you receive my signal in your shack. This is an issue for frequency bands that are completely full. I need to patient - and please be patient with me. Demodulation of signals on top of each other is well possible inside the WSJT-X software - however, if you are on the weaker end in reception and transmission, it just takes a little bit more time, but eventually you succeed.

Having said that - with WSPR and using 1 Watt of transmission power, I have been actively heard in many places around the globe.

WIRES-X Fusion is in use via my little YAESU FT5D handheld radio and our 70cm repeater F1ZDJ in Rambouillet - or anywhere else when "portable". Preferred rooms are AMERICA-LINK, KC-WIDE, DL-PEGASUS, KEY WEST and WM-CONNECT in these days. I am using for that, when at home, a 2m/70cm base station antenna.

I also have a DMR registration number - 2081303 - which helps me to be identified in the display when doing cross-technology digital QSOs.

I also use ECHOLINK worldwide via PC, mobile phone or iPad when not being able to use one of my radios to complete the connection. I try to make use of a Radio link at least once for a QSO, means I will try to call CQ on a repeater rather contacting any HAM operator directly via this software. You can find me occasionally on DB0SP for the "GERMAN-NET" gathering in which German-speaking expatriated HAMs meet Thursdays evenings at 1900 Berlin local time for an hour or two.

Check out my QRZ logbook! It speaks for itself that I am happy with this relative small antenna for short wave QSOs. Having confirmed QSOs on a QRB of 10000km+ with just 20 to 50 Watts of TX power - this is just absolutely great!

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About myself

I am a 53 year old German citizen, living and working in France since 2007 - for more than 16 years now.

Languages:
English, German, French, Spanish

I have successfully passed my French Amateur Radio HAREC License test here in France on April 8th, 2022. My results were 17/20 in Regulation and 19/20 in Technical.

As SWL, I am also active under DE3OBB internationally and F-80648 in France.

Here in Rambouillet, I am a member of our local Radio-Club which also operates a club station - F6KKR. It operates also the local 70cm repeater F1ZDJ. The annual membership fee is EUR 25 in 2024. A lot of construction activities as well as operations are coordinated - très sympa, mes amis.

I am a member of DARC in Germany (DOK B24, Miltenberg - my home QTH region where I grew up) and the French organisation of Radio Amateurs France.

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Emotions

I am really fascinated and enthusiastic about what HAM radio does.

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For any future radioamateurs here in France

I have one important advice:
I have used learning material of Radio Amateurs France, information from REF and the online webpage EXAM1 as exam preparation. EXAM1 has for nearly every question an explanatory part and cross references towards a training course document. It has been extremly important in the last weeks before passing the ANFR test as EXAM1 puts you in a real examination environment, with real questions and time limits. 15 out of the 20 questions in both Reglementation and Technical test have been inside EXAM1. As you need to answer 10 questions correctly in each of the two tests, EXAM1 has been decisive for success. And the best... EXAM1 is a free webpage.

If you use it and you pass, think about the organisers and operators of this page - and donate some money. They really deserve it.

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Important remark

HAM radio is non-discriminatory worldwide. We do not care which culture, race, origin, political opinion, age, gender, religion you have, disability you suffer from or which passport you possess. Links can be established one-way or two-way on wireless frequencies around the globe. HAM Radio is one of the most free forms of non-commercial communications between telecommunication enthusiasts that does not stop at country borders. HAM radio is also diverse - we have thousands of possibilities to transmit and receive radio signals in parallel: on different frequencies, different modes, with different equipment - while moving, on the pause or fixed. One YL/OM specialises in one technolgy - and can share her/his experience, advances and success with others. New services, developments, connections, expeditions, experiments and station improvements are possible on an every day basis - just go for it! Clubstations and HAM organisations exist due to this idea to foster any of us - even this QRZ page!

This comes along with rules and regulation that we all shall adhere to as part of our license. In our HAM radio community, there is no place for political agitation, discrimination and disrespect.

We are all ONE PEOPLE on ONE PLANET living our HAM spirit!

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Vy 73 es mni 55 de F4JKH - hpe cuagn sn!

HAPPY QSOs worldwide - With love to all of you!

Andreas

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

HF 40m-10m Base Station Transceiver: YAESU FTDX10
6m VHF/UHF Base Station Transceiver: Yaesu FT-991A

VHF/UHF Handheld for FM and C4FM: YAESU FT5D
VHF/UHF Handheld for FM and DMR: Radioddity GD-88

BlueDV with AMBE3000R stick


Antennas:

For 80m-10m:
Alphaloop Magnetic Loop 100W

For 2m and 70cm:
Base Station Antenna: Komunica Mini-Dual

For 6m:
Base Station Antenna: Halo Loop HO-LOOP