About
This is me
Name: L Krister Eriksson
Resident: Västerås, Västmanland County, Sweden
Born: in Falun, Darlecarlia (Dalarna), Sweden.
Age : 45 (+)
Family: My fiancé, three adult children from former marriage.
Have been working in telecom business for nearly 30 years,
after a period of unemployment I recently got a new job in industry.
Licensed ham radio operator since 1979
QRA: SM5KRI previous calls SM4KRI, SM6KRI
QTH: various places in nature as / P
QSS: 7-18 MHz
Main interest in hamradio : CW, QRP, contesting and again lots of CW ..
Other interests : webdesign, Graphical communication, photography
I prefer to build and construct my own equipment and antennas.
Not a blogger
I am not a natural blogger, this website is mainly to promote hamradio and my interest in radio technology, QRP, Contesting and SOTA. To adminster this homepage in a easy way I am using WordPress.
My ham radio gear – in a red bag
I used to have a good setup, with large antennas and rigs and had been very active in several contests on CW as SM6KRI, when living at the west-coast of Sweden. Now living here in Västerås city, it’s difficult to get permit by the landlord to have any antenna on the apartment buildings, and I cannot cope with the heavy interferences here in city. So all equipment I use now are carried in a small red bag, containing an Elecraft K1 QRP transceiver built by myself, small ATU:s, wires, cables and other good stuff needed and always ready for go portable outdoors anytime. Mainly the antenna is either a homemade dipole with 600 ohm ladderline or an end-fed wire.
My QSL-card
I guess you are checking this site because we actually recently had a QSO on one of the hambands.. And pherhaps you got my QSL.
Nice to meet You again OM!
It will be my pleasure to confirm our contact but please send me a REAL qsl-card, that is: an old-fashioned piece of paper showing our call-signs and the qso-details and that I can touch and hold it in my hands.. QSL sent via the bureau is just fine.
I do not, will not respond to, nor confirming a contact by use any kind of digital requests like eQSL or LOTW.
Contesters, normaly I don’t send out QSL for all contacts made in contest, however I will always reply if I get one from you!