I am Richard 19AT114, before this callsign I used 19SD002 & 19SD191 and before that 19FU039 and before my Foxtrot Uniform adventure some other QRZ I can’t remember.
I have been involved in this hobby since 1974 with 2 AM walkie-talkies and still have quite a bit of fun with it regularly. My first new cb radio was a Stabo XM2200 CB radio but I quickly switched to something else, the President Madison with SSB and more on the freebands. it all started on 27.805 mhz when I heard New-York in the USA. In the meantime, I have owned and sold several transceivers. In my display cabinet there are still a few transceivers that I bought new in the 1990s and 2000s. Never sold again and in use as a collector’s item.
I’m a QRP operator, which means I operate with the power the radio can deliver, usually as little as possible. That’s my thing: low power and very long distance communications. In 1983 I had a nice conversation on a mobile antenna with an Italian female operator named Michelle, thanks to her my daughter born in 1984 is called Michelle. Another special contact was with 41YDX385 Bill, I worked this station with a 3 element zx yagi and 5 watts, I received a nice radio report from New Zealand, as if we were next door neighbours. As you can read, I am quite connected to the radio hobby, I met many people and unfortunately I have also lost a few radio friends to terrible fatal diseases.
Antenna’s:
Over the years that I have been involved with radio, I have had various antennas in addition to transceivers and receivers. Here you see my ZX-Yagi, a three-element directional antenna that I bought new in 1999 and kept until 2009, thanks to my gratitude. On top of the Yagi, you see a well-known Solarcon Antron-99 half-wave fiberglass antenna, both suitable for 10 and 11 meters.
I had removed the antennas for maintenance and because my hobby was temporarily on hold due to other important matters. When I tried to put the Yagi antenna back on in 2015, it was stolen from my roof where I’d placed it under the roof tiles. Because I live in a four-family house block, it turned out that the neighbors’ workmen had taken the antenna, thinking it was scrap metal. I reported this, but nothing was ever done about it. I did get the purchase price reimbursed by the insurance company. I never got a directional antenna again, and I still have the Antron-99, which served me well in the meantime. Since 2024, I’ve been using a Sirio DV27W Boomerang antenna. With this small balcony antenna, I’ve achieved some seriously good QRP power results. A few local operators have made some lame jokes about it, but the antenna has always amazed me, and I still use it regularly. Doing a lot with a little is fun, after all.
Thanks to a CB operator (19EK065 Mr. Frank) who lives in my area, I came into contact with a digital mode (JS8Call) on the Citizen Band last year. I decided to give it a try and bought a Signal Link device via e-Bay for one of my transceivers and guess what it worked for me. Now I’ve been working on it weekly since last May 2024. Besides trying to work some activations from Alfa Tango and other well known DX groups you can find me on 27.245 MHz with JS8Call, so give me a call.
This website is always under construction and it exists for my amusement. Further more I enjoy sharing things my way instead of through social media. Social media isn’t social. If you ask me it’s more like a public dumping ground for the internet.
Contact Me if you have questions for me.
DXERNL 
I had the same experience when I started using js8call. It took some perseverance to get the computer and radio…