My short name is Nico, I was born in March 1977.

I used to look at a radioamateur's antenna situated along the street where I and my family were in the habit of having a walk on Sundays. It was something that fascinated me.

I started enjoying this beautiful hobby, believe it or not, by getting a couple of those so called "walkie-talkie" toys and playing with my sister in 1988. While using them I could hear CB voices and it was kind of a torture not to be able to talk with them and my father (CBer of the 70's) told me I needed a CB radio, so, then I had fun on CB with a transceiver my grandmother gave me as birthday present. That was the time I got ill since as I realized about worldwide communications on SSB, so, in 1990 at the age of 13, I tried anything possible to get myself all necessary devices to work DX.

On 26th of October 1999 I got my ham radio licence: I was really excited.

I used a cheap 10m transceiver (President Lincoln 26/30 Mhz) for more than 10 years till summer 2003 and now I have a better radiostation!

I like CW. I still have to learn a lot to be a skilled operator. Sorry!

Other interests of mine at this present time are: bodybuilding, learning English (also French and a bit of Spanish), my motorbike (600 cc. DUCATI Monster year 2000), listening to any type of catchy music and photography.

My dream: to travel around the world not only by the airwaves!!!