LA5MDA
[01/Feb/2007]
I have been on the air since 1982 with the callsign LB7ZB and
LA5MDA since 1983. I have operated from various QTH's; Nesodden,
Lillehammer, Tana, Drøbak, Cannes in South France and
Jæren. My home location is now Tåsen in the city of Oslo.
The shortwave has been my primary interest these years. CW is my
favourite mode; about 85% of the QSO's is worked on telegraphy. I
also work SSB, PSK31 and RTTY sporadicly. The last years I have
become more active on VHF and UHF since my old friend LA7FKA
entered the bands. (We are responsible for the crossband repeater
LA7DR.)
I spend much time listening to all kind of shortwave traffic;
ham radio, broadcasting and commercial signals. I have never
chased new countries in a very systematic manner, but I try to
catch the new ones when I stumble upon them. By now I have more
than 180 DXCC entities. I really enjoy rag chew contacts on CW -
both for the practice and the fun of getting to know people I
meet on the air better.
The purpose with the radio hobby is recreation and joy, but my
main fascination is propagation, propagation forecasts and
DX-ing. I also enjoy experiment with antennas - which is rather
challenging in the city. I also enjoy some programming and
design, and have developed my own radio logging software QSOrg
based on the MS Access database tool. You may take a look at my
logfile here (text).
I am currently the NRRL (Norwegian ham radio society) HF Award Manager.
Please contact me regarding HF awards like WALA (Worked All LA Award) and WAC (Worked All Continents). I can also give contact information if you want apply for other Norwegian Awards like WANCA (Worked All Norwegian Communes), WNC (Worked Norwegian Cities), 100 LA and more.
My postal address is:
Bjørn Henrik Vangstein
Godalsvei 6
N-0871 OSLO
NORWAY
I was born in 1967 and have a bachelor degree in
telecommunication engineering and a bachelor degree in physics. I
work as a Lean/Continuous Improvement Consultant in FINN. I'm married
to Henriette, and we have to kids - Selma and Jakob. Other
hobbies I enjoy are diving (PADI Divemaster).
Station description
[13/March/2010]
HF
Tranceivers
Antennas
- Cushcraft R-8 8 band vertical (40/30/20/17/15/12/10/6 m) at
17 meter above ground
- Fritzel FD4 Windom (41.5 m long) for 6 bands (80/40/20/17/12/10 m) at 15
meter above ground
- Home made Windom (40.0 m long) with 4:1 balun with RF-choke from Balun Designs cut for 3700 kHz at 10
meter above ground
VHF/UHF
Tranceivers
Antennas
- Hotline HL-B41 VHF/UHF vertical at 17 meter above ground
- Nagoya NK-770H 2m/70cm car mounted mobile antenna
ACCESSORIES
- Begali Magnetic Classic Paddle, Bencher paddle BY-2 and some
old hand keyers
- Microphone TSM MT170 (condenser type studio mike)
- Microphone preamplifier ART Tube MP Studio with limiter and
48 V phantom voltage
- Behringer Ultra-Q PRO Parametric equalizer PEQ 2200
- Behringer Multicom PR-XL Compressor MDX 4600
- Microphone Shure 444 (dynamic)
- Heathkit HD-1410 el bug
- JPS ANC-4 antenna noise canceller
- JPS NTR-1 DSP audio filter
- BeyerDynamic DT-250 headset
- Sennheiser HD 280 Pro headset
PC
- Tech computers Pentium 4 2,8 GHz, 1 GB RAM
- MS Windows XP Pro 2002
- Hitachi 17'' LCD monitor
- QSOrg® Logging Database Software
Pictures
[01/Feb/2007]
Some pictures from my
shack.
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