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I was born in 1959 in a village near my actual QTH. Since the mid of the '70
when I began to take interest in ham radio, I felt that my main goal was DX
hunting in HF. I got the Italian licence in 1981 and some years ago the US
Extra class call K2CHZ. In 1991 I married Cristiana (IW2NVI/KC0QXT) who shares
with me this great passion, now we live in the centre of Crema, a nice, old and
small town 30 Km from Milano, where we work at Linate airport. In 2006 I got #1
DXCC Honor Roll.
Untill today (November 6th 2008) my score is:
All 338 DXCC (340 with deleted) entities confirmed and credited on Phone (
http://www.ari.it/hf/diplomi/dxcc/classifiche/index.php?topic=Phone )
106 DXCC entities worked on 160 m.
104 DXCC entities worked on 6 m.
317 DXCC entities worked on RTTY
2605 DXCC entities worked for Challenge and 2000 confirmed
809 IOTA worked and 543 confimed
From May 2007 ARRL Volunteer Examiner.
My rig:
IC-7800 ( http://www.rigpix.com/icom/ic7800.htm )
IC-R9000 ( http://www.rigpix.com/icom/icr9000e.htm )
IC-7000 ( http://www.rigpix.com/icom/ic7000.htm )
IC-970H (with UX-97 23 cm. unit, UX-R96 60-900 MHz sub rx, UT-34) (
http://www.rigpix.com/icom/ic970h.htm )
HF amp 2x GU74b (main) and FL-2100Z (spare).
Kenwood TM-D710 ( http://www.rigpix.com/kenwood/tmd710e.htm ) on my car as APRS
mobile station with AvMap Geosat 5 plus navigator as APRS station display (
http://www.avmap.it/index.php?swt=0151&ipr=492&lng=it )
Icom IC-2820 (with UT-123) ( http://www.rigpix.com/icom/ic2820h.htm )
FT-817 ( http://www.rigpix.com/yaesu/ft817.htm )
IC-2400 ( http://www.rigpix.com/icom/ic2400e.htm )
Ant. tuners: Magnum MT 3000DX and MFJ-949E.
About 10 HTs IC-E92D ( http://www.rigpix.com/icom/ice92d.htm ), IC-T81E (
http://www.rigpix.com/icom/ict81e.htm ), Kenwood TH-D7 (
http://www.rigpix.com/kenwood/thd7e2.htm ), Alinco DJ-C7 (
http://www.rigpix.com/alinco/djc7.htm ), Puxing PX-777, Motorola).
HF ant. (10, 12, 15, 17, 20, 30 and 40) Sommer XP-507 (
http://www.sommerantennas.com/xp504.html ).
The beam is supported with a 10 meters telescopic pole by Prosistel (
http://www.prosistel.it ) and rotated with a computer controlled Prosistel
PST641D rotator ( http://www.prosistel.it/rotorihome/pst641d/page641i.html ).
Home made dipoles for 40 and 80. Home made inverted L for 160 m.
Vertical 7 bands 10-40 m. by I1UJX (two) as secondary HF and APRS on HF.
5 el Yagi 50 MHz. Some 6m/2m/70cm/23cm verticals.
All aerials are from 25 up to 35 meters above the ground.
The picture shows a nice september sunset taken from the top of my roof and it
won the first place of ARI "Concorso Desk Top Radioamatori".
D-Star user QRV on IR2UDY
Active as TU5IJ (QTH Nassian) in January 1999. ID9/IK2CHZ (Stromboli Is.) in
July 2003. SV8/IK2CHZ (Ios Is.) in September 2005.
My second hobby is aviation and I have aeronautical radiotelephony licence.
My web site: http://www.arilodi.it and http://www.arilodi.it/aprs.htm
My last mobile position:
http://aprs.fi/?call=ik2chz-9&mt=m&z=11&timerange=86400
My WX station: http://aprs.fi/weather/IK2CHZ
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