My main Ham related interests currently include :
1) 6m DX, I only need a few more for DXCC !
(98 worked).Just added 5X
and 3C for 100 !, now to get the QSL cards.
2) QRP operation, both from home and bush.
3) Home brewing: radios, linears, transverters
and antennas.
4) Satellite work, can't wait for Phase 3D
!.
5) Computer based DSP, hardware and software
including high speed (200+ wpm) CW via computer..
6) DX in general, SSB, CW & RTTY, always
looking for that rare one one any band or mode.
7) Contesting and field station operation,
on HF as well as VHF/UHF. (See you in the CQ WW SSB and CW contests !).
8) I love CW and want to do 5BDXCC CW.
9) Chasing Islands (IOTA) is also great fun
and I hope to activate a few soon.
10) Digital modes like PACTOR, PSK 31, SSTV and Packet.
PACTOR is very usefull on the yacht for e-mail..
Operating a field station during a recent VHF/UHF competition, for a report on this contest click here.
Stationary mobile somewhere in Swaziland (3DA) operating as 3DA/ZS6VER. Mast with dipoles in background, running 100w from the cars battery and an Icom IC-706 MK II. The co-operator here is my YL, Katti - ZS6KVR/V51KV.
I am hoping to be active from Swaziland (3DA) again soon as well
as Botswana (A2) and of cause from Namibia using my V51VE
call. Lesotho (7P8), Zimbabwe (Z2) and Malawi (7Q)
are also countries we are hoping to visit in the next year or 2. I have
just spend 18 months operation from my yacht as ZS6VER/mm and V51VE/mm
(the yacht now flies the Namibian flag).