RA3CA Biography RA3CA

	RA3CA Life is a long jump from pussy to the grave. (Actress F. Ranevskaya) From myself I will add: - My jump continues!

  I was born in the spring of 1965. My parents did not have time to buy a cradle for me. My father disassembled the old tube radio, pulling out all the wires, lamps, switches, resistors, colls, speakers, chassis, and all radio components from it. Hence, the remaining wooded receiver case was my first cradle.
   I think it's not worth explaining here how I got a craving for color radio components and a mysterious broadcast. (like a bumblebee of sweet), to all kinds of broadcast radio stations, melodiously sounding dots and dashes originating somewhere far, far away on earth carrying sorrows and joys through outer space. My parents could not endure my nightly observations and presented me with real headphones. Perhaps it was this event that determined my childhood radio craze. In my youth, I found my hobby. And today-Radio is my life.
   I was not a big fan of school. In each lesson, I only thought about how to listen to the broadcast quickly. And when I made my first "scientific" discovery and connected a piece of wire to the receiver (this was my first antenna), I was delighted with what I heard and realized since I did not know anything. On leaving a boring school, I began to study radio engineering. In 1978, I received an observing call sign (UA3-170-490) independently conducted my first QSO at a collective radio station (UK3AAR), were at the same time, I learned the basics of radio engineering, equipment, and antenna research. My first soldered circuit-a multivibrator - was the first step to gaining the Morse code.
   From 1984 to 1986, I served at the Soviet Army with the troops of space intelligence radio. All the equipment that we used back then was placed on several hectares of land; today, all this could be set upon a single laptop computer; however, on that massive land could be planted vegetables by summer residents instead.
   In 1986, I received my first HAM call sign UV3AAC. Books I read in my youth about discoverers and explorers of the Arctic, left an impact on my amateur radio activity. (See Expeditions to the Arctic).
In 1990 I graduated from the Moscow Power Engineering Institute with a radio engineering degree. I still wonder how I managed to combine my long expeditions, studies, work, scientific, and teaching activities.
I have been working as a RA3CA call sign since 1995. From the list mentioned above, it's possible to remove only expeditions to the Arctic and constant experiments with antennas and study the science of predicting the passage of short waves.

PS. You Can read in more detail in my book, «Notes of the polar Radio Operator.»)
TNX! 73!.