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My Amateur "career"

I got my first license in December 1990, but my interest for radio started a whole lot of years earlier...

In 1980, when I was 14 years old, I learned about DX-ing, e. g. listening to distant broadcasting stations. I continued with the BC-listening for about ten years, quite successfully, and got about 170 countries confirmed. During the autumn 1990 I started to study for my code-exam and the Swedish class C license (novice license). After passing the exam, I started to work frequently on 10 meters SSB. I remember that the conditions on 10 meters was very good during 1990-91 and in a couple of months I worked the single band DXCC on ten. In March 1991, I upgraded to the class B license (general) and all of a sudden, I also had permission to work on 20 meters. However, I wasn�t satisfied with that and I studied hard to pass the class A exam, wich I did in June 1991. My interest for working on HF is now, however, limited to the WARC bands. Of course, you might catch me on the VHF/UHF nets on 14345 kHz...

My interest for working DX on higher frequencys started in 1993. Sofar, I have worked about 150 WWL�s on 144 MHz and about 50 WWL�s on 432 MHz. I haven�t yet started with working EME, but I have recently started up my EME project. However, I have been quite active during the last years on meteor scatter, both high speed CW and SSB.

Family

Since May 24, 1996 I�m married with Lena, my love and joy. Lena is not really a great supporter of my nightly activities on the bands but she has accepted that she�s married to a radio amateur. The family also consists of my daughter Ther�se who is 6 years old, one horse, 10 neon-tetras in a aquarium and 9 frozen goldfish in an outdoor pond.

Work

Ham Radio is not really the most important thing in life. One also has to work. So do I. Now, I�m working as Software Engineer at Enator Telub AB in V�xj�. It�s a lot of fun and really developing for me as a person as well as a professional. Enator Telub is also housing the amateur radio club Telub Radio Club SK7QJ.

Other interests

Well, there also exist other interests in my life. I spend a lot of time with my electronic and radio projects, please check out my project-page. I like to construct all kinds of electronic artifacts. I�m also a "sport�s maniac", who love soccer and ice-hockey. My favourite hockey team here in Sweden is R�gle BK, soon back in the highest division, beleive me!!