Here is my biography info.
My name is Hide and callsign is 7L2VPL. I live in My hometown, Chiba Japan where about 60km(38miles) east of Tokyo.
I got a ham radio license in 1969 for the first time when I was a high school student. It was the age of change from AM to SSB. and got the code license in 1974.

I had been enjoyed HF with Big Beam Antennas and 200watts for 11 years in early times.

It was best time in my radio history.

after that I moved to an apartment house so I had to QRT for some years and lost my original callsign during the QRT.
 I restarted ham in 1992 with this new callsign 7L2VPL.

I was on the air mainly on CW with small size antenna and 50 watts.

QRP, Experiment of Electric Circuits and Homebrew of radio equipment were all my interests. And I had been enjoying the contact with many people of the world not only on a real air but also on VOIP program such as EchoLink and CWCom.

I am looking forward to making contact with a lot of radio amateurs and SWLs of the world.
I moved to my hometown where country side in 2021 and I have been on Digital Mode since then and I built 80/40m DP, 20/17/15m VDP, 40/30/20/15/10m Vertical, 12/6m DP, Long Wire for 160m BAND and 2m 5ele stack beam, 70cm 9ele stack beam. TRX is IC7300 100 watts, IC7700 200 watts and IC-9700 for V/UHF 50 watts..

I have been enjoying HF CW and Digital mode right now. and My goal is getting the award of WAS and DXCC100 and good skill of CW if I could.
I started a QRO program and ready to get 1kW license since Nov.2024.
QRO program takes me a lot of years because I need a lot of knowledges and technics for getting the kW license. I finally got the review comlete of MIC for my kW application on Aug.2026 and I sent my application for the request of the test wave emission on Oct.2026.
so my kw license is just around corner.

Hide / 7L2VPL