LA7TN
Welcome to Lillesand
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Ham Radio – a hobby enjoyed by many and endured by most of their neighbours… If you’ve landed here then it’s probably because we’ve just had a QSO or perhaps you’ve typed some words into your favourite search engine and found this site. Activity-wise, I’m a SSB/Digimode operator at home, and SSB when portable. As the Shack doubles as the office, I find it more productive to have a few short (read: efficient) QSOs rather than spend ages yakking about the weather on a voice mode. In the Shack, there’s a Kenwood TS-940 and an Yaesu ft-450 with an 80 meter dipole and GAP Titan. I am lso active from my mobile home using the ft-450 and a G5RV with a portable 10 meter mast. QSLs : My hobby is radio, not postcards – and, although some can be pretty, storing them isn’t practical so please don’t waste your time sending them. I am not an NRRL/Bureau member, so cards sent “via the buro” will never reach me. eQSL/LoTW are uploaded regularly. When the weather is good, the safe confines of the Shack are left as I venture outdoors to operate portable with the ft-450 and solar power. I typically use a 10m fishing-pole to support a G5RV in an Inverted-V configuration. When /P, it’s a mixture of MOSTLY SSB and occasional datamode, for the time beeing FT8. Operating outdoors is for many Hams something to enjoy. A bit of space to put up an aerial, noise-free away from electrical QRM. It also allows for a great deal of experimentation – not to mention attracting interest from curious members of the public. Hams like to keep lists, make pretty charts and tick things off and that include me: Logging is therefore done with Log4OM for desktop logging and tabLog for /P. Log4OM gives me a QSO logger, DXCC stats, DX Cluster and much more. For contesting N1MM is for me simply the best. Both are FREE and available for you to download and use.
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Kenwood Ts-940
Yaesu Ft-450
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