Ham Radio

About Me

My name is Mats Peterson, and I live on the west coast of Sweden. I got my amateur radio license in 1988, and my callsign is SM6SXL. I have operated several different modes through the years, such as CW, RTTY, AMTOR, PACTOR, SSTV and packet radio. CW and RTTY are perhaps my favourite modes.

I’ve had a break from amateur radio in recent years, partly due to the Internet. That doesn’t mean I have ditched it altogether, though.

If you’re interested, have a look at my logbook, spanning from 1988‐10‐19 to 1997‐06‐01.

Radio Equipment

A list of equipment that I own or have owned:

  • Yaesu FT‐⁠107M HF transceiver
  • Yaesu FT‐⁠208R 2m handheld transceiver
  • MFJ‐⁠1278 multi‐mode data controller for RTTY, AMTOR, PACTOR, packet radio and more. Upgraded with the MFJ‐⁠48 firmware upgrade and MFJ‐⁠56A PACTOR/⁠mailbox memory expansion.
  • MFJ‐⁠949C HF antenna tuner
  • MFJ‐⁠406 electronic keyer
  • Bencher BY‐⁠1 iambic paddle
  • Diamond DP‐⁠CP5 multiband vertical antenna for 3.5/7/14/21/28 MHz

Scanners:

  • Uniden Bearcat UBC780XLT base/mobile
  • Uniden Bearcat UBC3300XLT handheld
  • Uniden Bearcat UBC69XLT‐⁠2 handheld

Software

Radio related programs written by me:

MORSE v1.11
A little Morse code training program for MS‐DOS. It is primarily written for the Creative Sound Blaster Pro sound card, but it will probably work with other Creative cards (SB16, AWE32) as well.
Note: The program works best in pure MS‐DOS. If you use Windows, please reboot into DOS mode. If that is not possible, put the program and its files on a bootable MS‐DOS floppy disk.
MORSE for Unix/Cygwin
An incarnation of the aforementioned Morse code training program for Unix‐like systems (including Cygwin). It is not quite as featureful as the DOS version, but it’s still useful.
sprog v0.2.6
A simple Unix utility for programming Uniden Bearcat scanners. It is primarily intended as a “batch processor”, but it can also be used interactively. It supports at least the following scanner models:
    Amer­i­can: BC780XLT BC785D BC796D BC250D BC296D
    Eu­ro­pean: UBC780XLT UBC785XLT UBC3300XLT
J‐Pole Calculations by N3GO Gary O’Neil
C, Perl and TI‐⁠89 implementations of N3GO Gary O’Neil’s J‐pole calculations.

Links

A selection of radio related sites:

SSA
The Swedish Amateur Radio Society
ARRL
The national association for amateur radio in America
HamCall.net
Worldwide callsign database
QRZ.COM
Worldwide callsign database
QSL.net
Free web hosting and e‐mail forwarding for radio amateurs
DXCluster.info
Information about DX Cluster
Your Own Ham Domain
Set up a domain name with your own callsign
Fu­net’s Amateur Radio Archive
Large archive of amateur radio related software and information

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