Bonjour,

I am Jean-Louis, born in a little village of french Alps mountains in 1958. Married  to Nicole, we have two sons, Francois and Olivier.

I’m veteran of the French Air Forces, I took up my duties in early 1976 and retired after 30 years of service.

SWL since 1974 using a brand new Grundig Satellite 2000, Radio Amateur since 1987 with the callsign FB1NHJ then FD1NHJ in 1993, finally 6W1/F5NHJ arrived in Senegal in Ouakam City where we spent two years of duty. I was very busy professionally, trading little and mostly CW and RTTY/ Packet. Discovery of digital modes through the BBS using an old Memorizer in Vhf, FT752 GXII on HF bands, MFJ 1278 and a PC 186. thru 6W1AAD-1 and other links…

Back in France at Roquebrune Cap Martin, a town of the French Riviera between Menton on the Italian border and the Principauté de Monaco.
My new station equipment was :  R7 antenna, PK232 mbx, FT900at.

Leaved four years later for another trip to Djibouti in East Africa and traffic « all modes – all bands » with laptop, IC 706MkIIg, my old FT900at, using J28NH, J27JUIN & J28CDX calls.
(Lake Assal in the Rift Valley and Seven brother isl. near Bab el Mandeb – Iota AF-053  and AF-059)

A few years traffic « Côte d’Azur » interrupted by travels, duties, ballads in Europe and around the world ..  TO4E, EY8/F5NHJ, FK/ .., VR2 / .., FG / ..,  6W/..
 Always enjoying an hour or two to do some radio contacts with the country prefix.
(REF, Clipperton DXClub, Bordeaux DXGroup, F6KOP member)

Always a RTTY and data modes fanatic. We lived since August 2009 till July 2021 in a small village of Gascony Province in south west France where we had opened a guest house.

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Back in the Anjou region in our new home in Chalonnes-sur-Loire after several decades spent elsewhere in France and abroad.
Now it’s time to go visit our children in New Caledonia and Canada.*

FK/F5NHJ is back on the air, and I’ll also be appearing as VE2/… and VE7/… Primarily from Quebec, though I certainly hope to operate from the Maritimes (VE1 VE9 VY2 VO1)  as well as Saint-Pierre and Miquelon (FP) in the near future. Wait and see, in the meantime… 😉

To be continued …
*( and doing some radio too )