R9DX Vadim Ovsyannikov
Team: Asia 1 (Team Leader)
Country: Russia
Age: 51
Occupation: Financial Manager
R9DX Vadim Ovsyannikov
I started to learn Morse code at the age of 13 at school. At age 14 I earned my SWL call sign UB5-062-366 (Ukraine) and was one of the operators of the school club station UK5XAK. At that time I was interested in home brewing radio equipment. I built my first superheterodyne receiver at the age of 14. I got my personal license at the age of 18 and call sign UB5XCJ. By that time I was designing and building my own transceivers and using them on the air. I did not get my first commercially made transceiver until I was 34.
Since 1987 I hold call sign UA9CLB. It was only in 1997 that I got interested in contesting. Since 2010 my call is R9DX.
I participated in WRTC 2010 in Moscow.