The team

A short presentation of the LA8W LN8W operators.

LB8IB Øyvind Olaf Ekhall
Born October 31 1967

Founder-member LACC/LA8W.

LB8IB (Photo LB1GB)

Caught the hamradio bug from his father LA4MK when he was around 12 years old.

He could sit for hours listening to stations on his old Galaxy 5 transceiver. At 14 he got his novice licence with the call LB8IB, running 15 watts CW, but still managed to work 100+ countries with their Hygain 18AVT vertical. At the age of 16 he received his “A” licence with the call LA8SDA. Switched back to LB8IB October 18 2005.

Operated from: LA2AB, LG5LG, SJ9WL, OJ0LA and LA8W.
Ex.LA8SDA

LB1GB Bjørn Henning Bergheim
Born February 19 1966

Founder-member LACC/LA8W.

LB1GB at LA2AB in the early 90's

Introduced to CW via a colleague of his father, and got hooked, still his favorite mode. First licenced in August 1980, 14 years old. Spent the first 1.5 years as a novice with the call LB1GB, and worked a lot of QSO’s. Was active every single day the first 1.5 years :-)

First rig was a FT7-B by Yaesu and the antenna was a 14AVQ vertical on the roof of an apartment building. When turning 16 in 1982 he received his “A” licence LA4DCA. Switched back to LB1GB August 15 2005. 25 years anniversary!

Operated from: LA4O, LA2AB, LA5X, LA1DXG, LG5LG, LX8A, LX9BV, DF0BV, HB0/, DL/, LX/, VP5/LA4DCA, VP5L, SO5DCA, SO2DCA.
Ex.LA4DCA
LB1GB website

LA6MP John Schjetne
Born December 16 1955

Senior Member

LA6MP John at OJ0LA

Licensed on my 16th birthday in 1971, I had to wait nearly a year after I had passed the examination. There was no interest at all for radio in my family, so at the age of 15 I decided to become a fulltime ham. This lead to many interesting conflicts with my family. At the university I spent almost all my time and money at the club-station LA1K, I left after 5 years with a lot of contest experience and a grade, the latter to my parent’s great surprise. Unfortunately my professional life came in conflict with my main interest in life, so I was QRT till about 1985. The price for this is that I still need VU7 .. After my “rebirth” in 1985 I concentrated on DXing and contesting, one period I was President of LA DX Group. Have been more or less QRT the last 3 years, but should I be found in front of a station, the mode would most likely be CW.

LA7SL Nils Petter Pedersen
Born 1950

LA7SL Peter

Grew up in his fathers radio-workshop, where he developed his keen interest in electronics and technology. He is also very interested in science.

Got his license in 1968, which makes him the oldest ham in the group. Loves lowband DX’ing.

Peter is the houseowner where our station is. Knowns a lot about everything, a real resource to the group.

LA9VDA Trond Johannessen
Born July 7 1954

LA9VDA Tony

Active DX’er and DXpeditioner, and a great QSL manager!

Operated from: TO0DX 1999, OJ0LA, OH0LA, JW9VDA, VP2MLA and various LA6Q IOTA.

LA7MFA Lech Tomczak
Born September 4 1964, Ostrołęka, Poland

LA7MFA Lech

Licensed as SP5LGT in 1979 at the age of 15. Active contester already as a member of SP5KVW. High Speed Club member (number 966) since 1981. Emigrated to Norway in 1984. Licensed as LA7MFA since 1986. He was very active on the radio during his studies at the University of Oslo. Also holder of an advanced class US license with callsign KK6HC between 1990 and 2000. Nowadays operates CW only. Member of NRRL and LA-DX-GROUP. Used to be WEB-master for LA-DX-GROUP, “Double Trouble DX-pedition” and VP6BR. Likes QRQ rag chew QSOs on 40m and used to like DXing before it all went internet. Loves RUFZ and HSC contests.

DXpeditions:

1999 – Operator on T31T and ZK3CW. Operated as KH8/KK6HC for a couple of days.

2001 – 3B8/LA7MFA for 3 weeks.

Operated also as SV5/LA7MFA and SO5MFA.

LA8AJA Andreas Kristiansen
Born October 2 1979

LA8AJA at OJ0LA

Active DX’er on HF, 6M and 2M. Licenced since May 1995 as LB4WE and LA8AJA in October 1995. A CW man! Been working contests from LA8W since 2003.

Operated from: OJ0LA, LA6Q (IOTA), JW8AJA(JW4X 6M)
Ex. LB4WE

LB3HC Marius Hauki
ex.LA9EEA

LB3HC

Marius Hauki, born 12.May.1969. Long time contester. Licensed as LB3HC at age 14. Later got LA9EEA at age 16.

Operated from C6, OY and W, LA4O, LA2AB and LA8W.
Favourite mode: CW.
Current project: DSP based HF radio.

Previous members* and guest operators: LA9HW* LA5KO* LA6YEA LA3BO LA9DFA LA7HJA LA9SEA*

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