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 My name is Stephane REY and I'm born in 1974 in the city of Saint-Etienne in France. Now I'm living in the countryside in the eastern part of France, near the border with Switzerland and Geneva city in the small village of Minzier. Read more about my location.
I'm an electronics engineer and you have already understood that it's also a hobby. You can have a look at my resume by checking my curriculum vitae.
I've passed the exam for the hamradio license in 1992 and received the callsign F1TJJ. I'm not so often on air, usually this is just for testing or to get in touch with local hams. I'm more interrested by designing products and listening RF. My favourite fields of interrest are space communications and weak signals even if sometimes I can listen to shortwaves, especially digital modes.. My radio station is continuously improving to match the needs for this activity. I've started the installation of a 1.8m (6ft) prime focus dish.
What is Amateur radio (or Hamradio) ?
Wikipedia says : "Amateur radio, often called ham radio, is both a hobby and a service in which participants, called "hams", use various types of radio communication equipment to communicate with other radio amateurs for public service, recreation and self-training"
This definition is quite short and doesn't cover all the fields where hams are involved. Hamradio is more than a hobby for me. This is a spirit and a way of life, pushing me since I'm 14 to continuously be curious of all the technical stuffs around me.
That's not only radio and electronics : that's radio and electronics applied for many other fields or for some people and I'm still thinking that hams are pionners searching for new technologies. Most of them are reused in the industry later : space radiocommunications, radioastronomy, medical science, service, aeronautics, TV, phones, ... that's so widely used that I can't list everything here but don't forget when you use your cell phone, open your garage door or cook with your microwave oven, that all of this have been designed, tested, optimized thanks to hams several years before the industry pushed this technology on the market.
Many radio amateurs have also the willing to help people as I do and are volunteers to provide backup communications for safety organizations or local emergency services. They bring their skills and mobile communication equipment in disasters areas where official communications fails or when searching the distress beacons of lost planes for instance. I'm member since 2008 of the french national association FNRASEC which provides this support for ermergency services.
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