SM5CSS - 7S5S. My hobby and my family

Swedish Amateur Radio Station SM5CSS
Name: Allan Pettersson
Address: Ringvägen 7, SE-749 70 Fjärdhundra, SWEDEN
Telephone: +46-171-91482

Member of Sveriges Sändare Amatörer.

I was born 1945. I got my license September 8th, 1960 and I have worked more than 73.500 contacts. I like to work Scandinavian Activity Contest on phone, and I have joined the contest 35 years now, maybe it will be the 36th time in September 2008!

My station equipments:

Icom IC-751 transceiver and Heathkit SB-200 power amplifier.
Kenwood TR-7730 transceiver for 2 meters.
Kenwood TR-2200G transceiver for 2 meters (mostly 145.375 MHz).
Kenwood TH-45E transceiver for UHF communication.
In 1991 it took me 5 month to put all my 47500 contacts into the freeware log program TOPLOG, created by I4UFH in Italy!
Because of the Millennium I changed to another log program, DX4WIN created by KK4HD in USA.
Nowadays I am using the program N1MM Logger for logging contacts in contests.

My antennas:

KT34XA (6 elements) made by KLM for 10, 15 and 20 meters (height=20 mtrs).
Modified TA-33Jr (3 elements) for 17 and 12 meters (height 22 mtrs).
Inverted VEE for 30 meters (height 21 mtrs) between the booms of KT34XA and Ta33Jr.
4 elements, elevated phased verticals, for 40 meters.
Dipole antenna and a delta-loop for 80 meters.
Vertical dipole antenna for 160 meters.
2 elements yagi for 2 meters.

I live in a small place (835 inhabitants), about 80 km NW of Stockholm. 59 47 N and 16 55 E
Information for awards: QTH-locator=JO89LS, WASM=Län C, SCA=Enköping=C1, FG=Simtuna=C125

This is a photo of our house!

This is my wife, Britt-Marie! She is kindly serving breakfast, lunch, dinner, coffee for the night and solving interference problems at our neighbors, when I am working in contests!

This is my oldest daughter Susanne and my grandchildren, Linn and Emil, living in the city of Västerås. None of them are interested in amateur radio!

This is my daughter Maria. She is working in amd living just outside San Francisco, California!

This is my youngest daughter Linda and her boyfriend Jonas. They are living in Enköping and working in Stockholm, Sweden!

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