My way to hamradio began at club-station UZ3AWR where I made my first QSO on the 25th of December 1988. I passed SWL license`s exams in February of 1989. My SWL callsign was UA3-170-1169. I had to wait 3 years to receive Fourth Class license (160 meters band and 5 Watts) and 5 years for Third, Second or First Class licenses.

At fourteen I was rather experienced operator (hi) and I didn`t see any reason to start with Fourth Class license: my favorite band and mode was 20 m/SSB and I didn`t have any idea about my own equipment. I have already tried YAESU and KENWOOD trancievers to that time and had understood my home tranciever would not be home-brew: I was not (and I`m not) too strong in technical part of hobby (of couse, I can solder PL-259 on antenna`s cable or CW cord for notebook but no more (hi)).

In february of 1995 I had oppurtunity to pass exams on Second Class license at once and I passed them. So I became RV3ACA on the 13th of July 1995. My first tranciever was bought in September of 1997. It was YAESU FT-840. My friends (Ilya, RX3DRG, and Harry, UA3MKT) helped me with my first antennas: INT V on 20 meters and dipole on 80. Later Roma (RV3MA) built double INT V on 40/20/15/10 meters. I upgraded my license to First Class in April 1999. Since 1999 I`m member of "Russian Robinson Club".

Long hesitations between yagi and quad antennas were finished and I bought 2 elements QUAD-tribander RQ-23 in October 2000 (thanks to Oleg (RK3FA) and Vlad (RZ3FA)). Another long hesitations and I replaced FT-840 by KENWOOD TS-850SAT in October 2001.

So, in my shack:
• YAESU FT-840 KENWOOD TS-850S
• home-brew amplifier
• 2 el. quad RQ-23 4 el. quad RQ-33
• INT V 40-15
• 80 m dipole
• MOTOROLA CP-50

I`ve joined to "Russian Robinson Club" in 1999 cause I really like and share RRC objectives and became RRC secretary in February of 2002.

• August 2005 - DX-pedition to Shikotan Island (AS-062)
• October, 2003 - 8 Russian IOTA/DX hamvention, Lipetsk
• September, 2003 - 7 Siberian hams hamvention, Berdsk
• August, 2003 - IOTA/RDA DX-pedition to Sakhalin Island
• July, 2003 - R7HQ. IARU Contest
• October, 2002 - RSGB IOTA Convention 2002, UK
• July, 2002 - RI0L: DX-pedition to Ricoirda Island
• July, 2002 - WRTC-2002, Finland
• March, 2002 - Contesting in March
• September, 2001 - 7 Russian IOTA/DX hamvention, Lipetsk
• August, 2001 - 6 Siberian hams hamvention, Berdsk
• July, 2001 - RV3ACA/1, Bolshoy Berezovy isl., Baltic Sea
• September. 2000 - 6 Russian IOTA/DX hamvention, Lipetsk
• July 2000 - Finnish hams hamvention HAMI-2000, Finland
• July, 2000 - UE3MIR/p, Yurshinsky isl., Rybinsk Reservoir
• August, 1999 - 5 DX/IOTA Siberian hams hamvention, Berdsk
• January, 1998 - R3RRC/3, Shumarovsky isl., Rybinsk Resevoir
• July, 1991 - UZ0LWK/p, Vladivostok, pioneer camp "Ocean"