!!! BIG BROTHER IS WATCHING YOU !!!
there's always one
more bug.
Hello fellow HAM and internet surfer and welcome to my home page. It's my pleasure that you made it this far . . . And I hope that you'll stick around long enough to get to know just a little bit more about me and my life. (To know the time it takes to do this task; estimate the time you think it could take ,multiply by two and change the unit of measure to the next highest unit. Thus, you should allocate 10 hours for this 5 minutes task.).
My
HAM story
Glory may be fleeting,
but obscurity is forever.
LX2SM:
Stephan Matz, holder
of CEPT Classe A licence
Birth date: 13/03/1966
First licencied 11/01/1995
Full 1 Kw HF/VHF
class privilege
Station is located in BETTEMBOURG city
QRA LOC: JN39bm
ALT. 272 meters
You will find below some small informations about what mother propagation let me do during the last 8 years. To be complete and let you make some comparaisons, I will give you more infos.During 1995/96/97, on my previous QTH into LX capital city I was using 100 watts from a YAESU 890-AT, then later from a KENWOOD TS850-S. During 1995/96 the antenna was a CUSHCRAFT AP-8A. I change 1997 for a GAP TITAN-8, both antennas were placed at the same place on the top of my building about 24 meters up the ground. These configuration let me work 200 DXCC. Mid 1997, I move to my present QTH from which I'm still using the GAP and try to improve things on high bands by placing a yagi beam A3S CUSCRAFT, 21 meters high in the air. April 1998 I bough my AMERITRON AL-80BX linear which gives me with my beam 115 DXCCs more. Up juni 1999 I'm also more present on 40 with homemade full size OCFD with pretty good results so look for me on 40 (now dismantle), I also just put on the air an ISOTRON 160C for 160 but this one will probably not be so good for DX, wait and see, the next one to come is a single element delta loop.
Rig: KENWOOD TS-850S KENWOOD
ICOM IC-706 MK2G
Speaker: KENWOOD
SP-31
Tuner: AA&A LTD (now sk)
Power suply: ITC EP-925
Amplifier: AMERITRON AL-80BX AMERITRON
Coax switch: AMERITRON RCS-8V
Multimode data controler: MFJ-1278T MFJ
Swr & power meter: DIAMOND SX2000 +
YAESU YS-60 YAESU
Pc interface: KENWOOD IF-232C
6 meters converter: TEN-TEC 1208 TEN-TEC
DSP:TIMEWAWE DSP-59+ AEA
Log-book: LOG-WINDOWS by AEA AEA
Antenna rotor: YAESU G-600RC
Antenna: CUSHCRAFT A3S + ISOTRON
160C
+ Home made OCF 40 + Home-made 3 eles yagi
(50 MHz)
+ Fritzel 303 + several Home-made
GAP
CUSHCRAFT
Rig: KENWOOD TM-733E
ICOM IC-706 MK2G
Tnc: PC-COM
Power suply: PAN 25070
Soft: GRAPHIC PAQUET
Antenna: SERENE TSB-3301
Antenna: DIAMOND X-200N
My
opinion
Arrogance is too
often the companion of excellence.
I guess that the best and fastest way to
really get to know me is by discovering what I think. So here we goes .
. .
*Antenna (If it jams, force it. If it breaks,
it needed replacing anyway).
*Propagation (The other path always works
better).
*Qsl (Everyone has a scheme for getting
QSL that will not work).
*Linear (Anything good in life is either
illegal, immoral, or fattening).
*Swr meter (Anything that can go wrong,
will go wrong).
*Tx (It works better if you plug it).
*Logbook (No logbooks are lost, except
those you particularly wanted to keep).
*Computer (under the most rigourous controlled
conditions of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables,
the computer will do as it damn well pleases).
*Contest (If it looks easy, it's tough.
If it looks tough, it's damn near impossible to make a good score).
My
personal scores
Score varies
directly with equipment ruined.
