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The
station name Cupido or Cupid comes from the roman god for love
"cupid". I found it an interesting name to use for my station,
because no one else on shortwave used this name.
As
you know right now I am the operator of cupid radio and I will tell you
something more about myself,
I am 31 years old and I live
together with my girlfriend Jessica, I work at an installation bureau, I
am a electrician, and plumber which is very handy for my hobby,
Because most
of the transmitters stuff is homebrew
As a child of 10 years I was already very interested in transmitters,
because my father also had one, so I learned from him
My father
thought me how to built transmitters, so when I have the age of 14 I was
already broadcasting on medium wave with my own homebrew
transmitter, But you get older and then you want something else, so I did
some broadcasts on the fm band, but after a while it was to dangerous to
transmit, because the raid or rcd was very active on the fm bands.
Therefore it
was better to do something else, and after that I transmitted for a while
on the 60 centimetres, which is a frequency of about 488.00 MHz, but after
2 years I had no fun anymore in it
On
a meeting in Belgium I heard some pirates talking about shortwave that they
were broadcasting on 48 meter , and that sounded good to me , because my
roots still were in the lower bands. A
few days later I bought a receiver the yaesu frg 7700 , and began to
listen on 48 meters
I was very enthusiastic over the amazing results with only a few watts of
power
On a radio
market in Germany I bought a summerkamp transmitter, make some changes on
it. Like a external modulator
With this
transmitter I broadcasted for a while on 48 meter, then I heard trough
some friends, that there was a buy for a shipment of German army
transmitters very cheep, the famous sk10. you really can not built against
that, so together with my friend Unicum radio we collected the
transmitters, it was quit a shock when we saw them because the where all
very large and heavy (104kg),and we must
picked up three of those things
All three had
to be stocked in a little van, When we got home I installed it and made
the necessary changes.
This
was seven years ago, and I have made many successes in the mean time on
the 48 meter band, its a very good band for DX in the late evening or in
the early morning,
After a while
a began with a experiment on 13 meter, well it was damn could 7 degrees of
frost, while I risk my live above in the top of tower [witch got a height
of 13.5 meters] to hang my half wave stick dipole for the 13 meter band
[I hope I never do so stupid again]
When
I make the first broadcast 31 December 2000 on the 21.890 MHZ I receive
some reports far from my little town, so it was not bad working on that
freq and that with 35 watts
The
second time I made an announcement on the internet so that the real DX man
would be able to scan the 13 meters
while I was
broadcasting a said a few times the phone number , and than it happens I
got a caller from the USA and he said that he could here me for a few
minute’s , Yehaa believe me I go totally crazy
These days 2005-2006 I aim very often on 19 meter band 15.800 MHz because
the sunspots are not so good and conditions will improve within six years
on 21.895 m so I make the choice to go a bit lower in the freq, when the
solar x rays are active my signal hops over the big Atlantic easily and
then many continents will be reached
The sk10 gives about 40 watts when modulated, and I can make a carrier
from 100 watts but then the music cranks.
Since December
2005 I build an amplifier with 4 x 6146 b tubes on it to make more power
on the shortwave bands [see the photo]] now I can make 150 – 200 watts
modulated easily on all the shortwave bands
The
antenna system for 48 is a inverted V
this one works very well it gives the best results to the north,
it’s a dubbel v for two bands the top is for 48 and then the v below is
for 19 meters this v is feeded with one coax cable
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