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About JH3GBD/1

OP: Shin (Shin-Ichi HORINO)
Operator license: First class
Current address: Tsukuba city, Ibaraki prefecture
Address of station license: Otsu city, Shiga prefecture
Date of station license: 1970
Member of JARL, and JG1YGH Tsukuba Science City Amateur Radio Club

PORTABLE HAM - BACKGROUND

(1) You need a station license, as well as an operator's license, to operate amateur radio in Japan.
(2) A "sedentary station"(*1) and a portable station are defined as different categories by the law.
(3) Japan is divided into ten call areas. A sedentary station with the same callsign can't move to other call areas.
(4) The maximum output power of a portable station is limited to 50W(*2).

(*1) A legal category of station operating at a fixed place specified in its station license. I don't know its official terminology in English.
(*2) 10W on HF bands for a forth-class license.

JH3GBD'S PORTABLE HAM LIFE

I got my callsign, JH3GBD, in the JA3 area in 1970. Now I live in the JA1 area, which means that JH3GBD is always portable.

I have a first-class amateur license that allows the licensee a maximum output power of 1kW. My actual power is, however, only 50W, because my station is portable.

If I use a JA1-area callsign I can QRO. But I don't want to change my callsign.

I have no HF beam antenna at my house. I feel frustrated when operating radio with small antennas.

I am accustomed to outdoor activities. I enjoy them very much, for I am a climber and alpine photographer.

All these situations have been forcing me to go to the field. In weekends I go to nearby hills or river banks with my portable shack, a box car, in which I have everything I need to operate amateur radio. In fact, I have more things in my car than in the home shack.

I love contesting, although I can't win a prize very often. Almost all my contest activities have been from the portable shack.

PORTABLE SHACK

Let me show you my portable shack and portable antennas.

How to contact me

radio	Call JH3GBD/1 on CW (Sorry, I have no microphone)
	Mail to 7L3RMI@JN1ZGA.14.JNET1.JPN.AS
landline	Mail to jh3gbd@jarl.com