Le Site de FK8DD

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My Biography (Pix 1)
I was born in Tahiti (French Polynésia) in 1954 and i have 2 children from my previous marriage. Now i'm married with Vetea, and we live permanently in Noumea, New-caledonia.
In 1975 i was recruiting as Radio officer, by the "Office des Postes et Telecommunications de la Nouvelle Caledonie", and was affected to the Maritime Network Center (CEMT), so called Noumearadio/FJP Coast Radio Station where i was in duty until my retirement in july 2009. I attach a great importance to all change in this very nice island, also named "the rock", for exemple, the economical and social life, and of course the political upheaval.

Digital mode Trafic (Pix 2)
About fifty local hamradio operators, of which, at least, twenty guys, continue to practise their hobby day after day, and each frequency band, mainly on HF is exploited and optimized regarding propagation conditions.
PSK31 and RTTY are their predilection trafic mode, despite of telephony or morse code use. Digital modes have a great attraction on all hamradio, it's due to the data processing advent when associated to the transmitting radio equipment, while supplementing them, makes the communication exchange possible between hamradio operators.

The First transmission days of A.R.S FK8DD (Pix 3)
It was in lately 1976 when i began hamradio transmission, i used to operate from Yvon/FK8BU station who was a very good friend of mine. (My very first hamradio coach was Jean/FK8AB now SK). I was really excited in waiting for my ham license and when a couple of months later, i've finally got it, what's a great and magic moment when i turned my own transceiver on for the first time from my QRA. (See pictures in my photo galery here).

Radio equipment
The hamradio equipment was really very expensive and we have had a very limited choice in HF transceivers. So, i bought a Yaesu FT-101B HF transceiver with separated VFO, a VHF/2m transverter, a Yaesu FL-2100B HF 400w amplifier, a 50 ohm 100 watts Dummy load, and a 5 bands 5BTV vertical antenna from Hustler Factory.

During those years, HF QSO's (contacts carried out by hamradio operators) were delirious. I made so many contact with thousand and thousand amateur radio stations in the world at any time and any day or night, from 10m to 80m band, so strong and really incredible, the signals and working conditions were great. But like everybody, i had my preferences in radio. 20 meters band was my favourite band in CW (morse code), i've had also very few contacts by telephony mode in SSB (Single Side Band).

That time was also the beginning of new type of modulation like SSTV (Slow Scan TV) and RTTY (Radioteletype) which made timidly their first appearances although they were developed during the world war 2 and quickly put in the style of the day by U.S, japanese and Soviets hamradios.

QSL cards exchange (Pix 4 and 6)
But the must is the QSL cards exchange (Pix6-Mine) (Like postcards, in universal format 9cm x 14cm) which will effectively confirm a QSO. These cards were impatiently waited for various reason, the rareness of worked country, confirmation of a special event (I.e: MIR station In orbit) or simply by affinity with the contacted hamradio operator. On right side see Lars 5W0UK (SM6CUK) QSL card.

My present radio equipment (Pix 5 and 7)
Now my radiostation is composed of a multiband HF VHF and UHF Yaesu transceiver FT-857, MFJ-941E tuner, 7Mhz/10Mhz dipoles and a 5bands Spiderbeam antenna for 10/12/15/17/20m. My main activity is DX hunting on 40m and 17m bands.

LZ1JZ Tony is my QSL manager, i reply to all QSL cards and all ways are accepted (Direct, via bureau or e-QSL.cc)

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