Biography

I have been licensed since 1990.
My former call was HB9WAY.

I am interested in amateur radio since I was a Teenager, in the early '70s.

My current interests are:
- Summits on the Air (SOTA) on HF (SSB) and VHF (FM)
- HAMnet
- DMR

Equipment

SOTA:
Elecraft KX2 HF/50MHz QRP Transceiver with endfeed halfwave wire antenna
and Komunica HF-PRO-2-PLUS-T telescopic antenna
Icom IC-V80E VHF FM handheld transceiver / antennas Diamond VHF RH-205 telecopic antenna
or VHF coax cable antenna.

Home:
Kenwood TS-590S HF transceiver with a 53m endfed random wire antenna
Yaesu FT-8100R VHF/UHF transceiver with a Diamond X30 omni direction vertical antenna
Yaesu FT-857D HF/VHF/UHF mobile transceiver

DMR:
AnyTone AT-D878UV VHF/UHF handheld transceiver

Portable / Mobile:
Yaesu FT-857D HF/VHF/UHF mobile transceiver
Antennas: HF ZS6BKW antenna on MJF-993B tuner / VHF/UHF Yagi antennas