Hi, welcome to my blog !

My name is Jerzy and thanks for dropping in. I am very glad you are surfing around here so I would like to take this opportunity and present myself.I have been a radio amateur since 1969. My first SWL signature was SP8-1871 and a short time after I got SP8DXL. After 1976 I used SP2DXL and since 1988 I am LA4YGA. From 2024 I am also as SP2DXL when visited Poland.My QTH is Kristiansand, in the south part of Norway, WW locator is JO48be. My favorite subjects in HAM radio are VHF/UHF propagation and construction of RF equipment.

Standings

Worked DXCC entities and squares

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CQWWDX CW 2025

*** Contest Summary Sheet ***Callsign: LA4YGAContest: CQ-WW-CWClaimed QSOs: 383Claimed QSO points: 658Claimed DXCCs: 168Claimed CQ zones: 57Claimed final score: 148050 Band DXCC CQ QSOs Dupes Total ============================================= 160m: 0 0 0 0 0 80m: 27 6 48 0 48 40m: 41 9 97 0 97 20m: 40 12 89 0 89 15m: 30 13 72

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Grimeton Radio Station

This year during my summer holiday I visited Grimeton Radio Station, located in southern Sweden, close to Varberg, is an early long wave transatlantic wireless long wave station built in 1922–1924, that has been preserved as a historical site. Sometimes the site holds an open house during which the transmitter is started up and transmits test messages on

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Heathkit Antenna Tuner

Lucky me! I got an antenna tuner in very good shape. This one was factory build so inside quality is brilliant. Will use it with my Delta antenna when running a bit higher power. The tuner is good for SSB-2000 watts (peak) and CW-1000 watts in frequency range 1.8-30 MHz.