SM4CTI - Amateur Radio - a great hobby I have been licensed as a radio-amateur since 1957 with the call SM 4 CTI. As a Collins Radio admirer I operate only Collins equipment but from now a Ten-Tec Omni IV is also on the desk. The shack was earlier equipped with a S-line consisting of receiver 75S-3 with the 312-B. Exciter is a 32S-3 driving a 30S-1. This outfit was sold in 2005. Today I use my Collins KWM-380 and the Ten-Tec. The antennas are a Wilson SY-36 beam 20 meters up, a GP for 40 and slopers for WARC bands. On 160 I use an inverted dipole fixed at 27 meters and ending up in the lake. As I nowadays spend the winter on the Spanish southcoast I am using an IC-706 and a vertical antenn. I am QRV most days on CW as EA7/SM4CTI. Besides the DXCC I try to work all the counties of USA. As a result of my DXing so far I have a 6 band DXCC. I am valid for the exclusive Copper Coin Award of Falun. As being an ex Navy radio-operator I qualified for the Royal Naval Amateur Radio Society (No 4029) and the London (HMS Belfast) group No 486 and valid for awards issued by these societies.