ZS6RJ(South Africa) on 40m CW!!!

ZS6RJ(South Africa) on 40m CW!!!

ZS6RJ  South Africa Roger Jones 544 Duniet Street Elardus Park, Pretoria 0181 South Africa [+] Mailing label

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20121212 1959UTC 7016kHz ZS6RJ
Date : 12/Dec/2012 1959UTC 
Freq : 7016kHz CW
Rig : SDR(PI4THT)
ANT : GP
PC recording

Pse QSL via LoTW, the bureau or direct to my home QTH address.

Born in Z2-land (then called Rhodesia), I moved to South Africa in 1980, passing my radio exam and CW test in school at the age of 15 in 1983. I currently reside in Pretoria (capital city, QTH altitude around 1 550m).

I have a great passion for CW, CW contesting, State-side county-hunting and building HF antennas.

Update Nov 2012: Tower in the pic is down right now. So if you worked me in the past couple of months I was either using a hexbeam or Buddipole up at around 8 metres on a temporary mast, or a vertical for 40/80/160.

I'm currently constructing a new homebrew heavy duty tower which will be supporting a 4 element long-boom 6 metre monoband yagi, a Tennadyne T8 Log Periodic, a 3 element 30/40 metre yagi and a homebrew 80 metre linear loaded dipole. This means right now I'm generally tapping the MIG welder trigger a lot more than the CW paddle - I think it'll be worth the wait, but it's taking longer than I thought!

My other major hobby is wildlife photography, spending a large amount of my free time in Botswana, Namibia and Kruger National Park in South Africa. I run an Icom IC-7000 with a 108" whip (extendable to 210 inches) and an Icom AH-4 tuner in the 4X4.

Photo shows the XYL improving reception in Namibia by acting as a phased vertical array!

Postage stamp collecting started thanks to all the direct QSL cards received. Please feel free to send me any unwanted stamps along with your QSL cards - I'd greatly appreciate them!

73, de Roger

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