Freddy will turn 39 years old next year and has been licensed in 1992 when he was 19 years old. When he was living in Troyes in France he was mostly using the F6KJG radio-club callsign, then F5KAB from the 43e régiment de transmissions and F5KIN from the 28° régiment de transmissions starting from 1996. Working for the french Forces Armées, he is a long time DX’er with activities from FR FM FY FK FG FO TO4E (Europa island) TO7R (Salut island) TO8S (Les Saintes) et FT5GA (Les Glorieuses). Freddy is currently staying in J2 (Djibouti) for 2 years. He prefers CW using SSB from time to time and Digimodes only for testing purpose.

Yannick is now 34 years old and has been first licensed when he was 17 years old as F1TUJ and find interests in all the topics covered by amateur radio. DXing, kits building and enhancement, antenna experimentation are among his preferred. Yannick operates mostly CW even if he is quite new to this mode, still do some SSB during contests and Digimodes for QRP experimentations. Native from Lille in the north of France, he is now running a bed and breakfast in the Mekong Delta (Viêt-Nam) with his wife and its two kids.