| Name: | Vicente Calderón |
| QTH: | Curicó |
| Country: | Chile |
| Grid: | FF45JA |
| Email: | Hidden |
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| Licensed since: | Hidden |
| ITU, CQ: | 14, 12 |
| CQ: | 12 |
| Distr: | EL BOLDO |
| State: | MAUL |
| County: | Curicó |
I have been a radio enthusiast since I was a kid.
It all started with both grandfather's old radio and my uncle's stereo which had LW/MW/SW bands for listening, and I was amazed by the fact you can hear transmissions from around the world.
Since then, I dove into the world of electromagnetic radio waves (the Ether), by endless shortwave radio listening sessions with my uncle's radio, at Sagrada Famila or Iloca, since you could hear HF better in those places; I was born, and I'm living in Curicó, and you can already tell that reception here is not good at all.
My radio hobby evolved into the desire to be an amateur radio operator at my teen ages around 2012, since I realized people could do their own transmissions, on HF/VHF/UHF without being a commercial local WFM radio station or a shortwave broadcasting radio from somewhere in the world.
This feeling grew exponentially when I got into university in 2013, from purchasing my own radios to getting an amateur radio license in 2025 (chilean CD callsign prefix for newcomers).
Acknowledgements
- My grandfather.
- My uncle.
- The Portal videogame series, for showing me what SSTV was.
- The videogame Team Fortress 2, for exposing me to number stations, both alive and not operational anymore.
- University of Twente at The Netherlands, for their WebSDR, and inspiring to do my own one.
- To all my colleauges who I got inspiration for getting my ham radio license.
- The Radio Club Zona Maule for accepting me in their group.
73s!
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