User data

F4LDT

First name:

Alain

Fauconnet

Address:

92130 Issy-les-Moulineaux

France

QSL via:

eQsl, LOTW, QRZ, E-mail request, Online request

User info

 Best 73s to you all from a new old ham, thanks for visiting! 

I  work HF in portable and mobile only at this time due to antenna restrictions where I live, so don't assume that my QTH was what my information says here.
I consolidate my logbook here, so I'd rather have you log to my main callsign here and not F4LDT/P or F4LDT/M if you please.

I passed my ham license at age 16 in 1977 while in high school.
I've been active on VHF band only at my school's radio-club F1KJJ for 2 years (I had no callsign of my own), then on the CB/11m band for 5 years or so where I discovered DXing
I've been inactive since then until I regained interest in radio first through shortwave listening with hand-held receivers and then I registered for a callsign mid-2023.

I favor "real" chatty voice QSOs, quality over quantity and I'm not a big fan of contests, neither of "59/59 73s bye" QSOs. I like DXing!

I try to keep my logbook here complete and updated.

I work on low power (20 watts to 100 watts) mostly. I work a bit of VHF from home, mostly on the RI49 and RRF French networks of repeaters.

My three main spots for portable in the greater Paris region i.e. within a 40 kilometers radius around my QRA are:

• center of locator tile JN18ct, in the woods of Meudon bordering the south of Paris with a vertical 10m dipole
• N-W of locator tile JN08xq
• S-W  of locator tile JN18as, using vertical 1/4 wave / random wire antennas or a 20m end-fed half-wave in so-called "half-square" configuration (actually more like 3/4 of a rectangle ) 

During my vacation time in Brittany I work portable almost daily from the coastline, especially here at IN77vt, Exact location
I use my Xiegu G90 (20 watts) or my Yaesu FT-891 (100 watts)  and a 5m high 1/4 wave vertical telescopic whip with the added magical ground radial that goes to the sea water when possible and catches VK/ZL stations ( and  to Salty Walt K4OGO)

Other places nearby:

At IN77tw with a Rybakov antenna
Sometimes also from elevated places inland, like at IN78vc (285 m ASL) with my 20m EFHW in inverted V

I'm an IT systems engineer so I only work bands in analog (voice) mode because digital modes remind me too much of my work 
I also like talking to humans more than letting computers chat with each other.
I'm not CW-capable... yet?

I still often enjoy SWL a lot, from home and from this nice park in Meudon overlooking Paris and from cosy places at the beach while on vacation

Transceivers: Icom IC-7300 (newcomer!), Yaesu FT-891, Xiegu G90, Dynascan 10M66 (aka. Anytone AT-6666), CRT SS7900v Turbo, Radioddity QT40, Retevis RT95, Quansheng UV-K5. Radtel RT-860, Wouxun KG-UV86

Tuners: Mini ATU-130, LDG AT-600 pro II

Antennas:

• Portable HF: JPC-12 multiband vertical antenna, 20m 1/4 wave telescopic antenna, M0CVO Magitenna (Rybakov), LW-20, HW-20HP and various home-made wire antennas on telescopic poles: random wire, dipole, 1/4 wave ground plane and EFHW
• Mobile HF: President Ohio, Lemm Turbo 2001, Diamond HF10-CL 10m mono-band, HF20-CL 20m mono-band, Comet CA-7HR 40m mono-band, Outback 2000 multi-band
• Base VHF/UHF: Diamond X30
• Mobile VHF/UHF: Diamond MR77, Sirio HP2070R