I was born in april 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 on april 15th1983 and in 2001 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.
This year I celebrate 30 years of Ham Radio license. I have reached important targets both in radio operations and Ham Radio association.
RTX Icom IC-7800, 9 el. Yagi (10, 12, 15, 17, 20, 30 and 40) Sommer XP-507, plus full size dipoles on 30, 40 and 80 m., inverted L on 160 m. All antennas are about 35 meters above the ground.
HF amplifiers: solid state Yaesu FL-7000 or 2x GU74b switchables.
The beam is supported with a 10 meters telescopic pole by Prosistel and rotated with a computer controlled Prosistel PST641D rotator. Ant. tuner Magnum MT 3000DX.
On 6 m. 5 el. Yagi by I0JXX.
Secondary HF station (10-40 m.) and HF APRS:
RTX Icom IC-7000. Antenna 10-40 m. vertical by I1UJX at 25 m. above the ground. Ant. tuner MFJ-949E.
Main 2 m., 70 cm. and 23 cm. all mode (SAT and long distance VHF/UHF):
RTX Icom IC-970H (with UX-97 23 cm. unit, UX-R96 60-900 MHz sub rx, UT-34). Omni ant. Diamond X-7000 (2 m., 70 cm. and 23 cm.) at 35 m. or switch on log-periodic 105-1300 MHz Create 5130-2N on a computer controlled (VU2FD interface) Yaesu G-5500 az/el rotator at 28 m.
Second VHF/UHF (local FM and D-Star):
RTX Icom IC-2820 (with UT-123), and Diamond X-50 at 25 m. On D-Star I'm QRV on IR2UDS
Receiving only and internet shared 0-2000 MHz station:
RX Icom IC-R9000, HF ant. home made T2FD 20 meters long 2-30 MHz at 25 m. VHF/UHF Icom AH-7000. You can listen and tune it on www.globaltuners.com at node Crema .
On the air in APRS from 1999. From november 2004 (H24 7/7) a weather station transmits datas bothon TCP (IK2CHZ) and radio (IK2CHZ-3). It is an Oregon Scientific WMR-968 wireless connected via RS-232 to a pc running Weather Display wich generate a wx file for UI-View (THE APRS software). UI-View handles 3 dual port TNCs (Kantronics KAM 8 enhanced, Kantronics KPC-4, Kantronics KAM XL) and one single port Raschi 12-96. At the same time runs JAVAPRSServer (server TCP/RF) (call IK2CHZ-11). Everything is linked with TNCs via AGWPE. If you want to try the server is: ik2chz.no-ip.biz:10152 . Frequencies: 144.800 1200 Bd, 432.500 Bd, 144.950 9600 Bd, 14.103 and 10.147 300 Bd.
