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The evolution of the Ham species

(How an Ham can evolve after he has realized that it's working!!)

 

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Licensed since 1991, I am a geologist and I like very much DXing but always /M

(exclusively DRIVING!!) since year 2000

At the very beginning my shack was at home and this below was my tower with the antennas:

After some years, my job brought me to spend long time driving and of course my way of doing radio evolved.

This was my first car prepared with an HF rig (Yaesu FT100+ATAS100 and Icom IC2410H+Diamond VHF-UHF)

The second one was still a Fiat Stilo but more equipped:

(2 Yaesu FT100+2 ATAS100, 1 Kenwood TMD700+Diamond VHF-UHF, 1 Icom IC2410H+Sirio VHF-UHF).

Set up to listen contemporary more than a frequency.

AndThis below was the internal set-up:

 

Two Yaesu FT100 + two ATAS100 together with two Kenwood TMD700 and a CW vertical key

Remotizing all the RTX couse to me to find a clever solution to occupy space as less as possible

without compromising the car loading capacity

I tried to look after all aspects: efficiency but also style

After this car I shifted from Fiat to Ford assembling my mobile station into a Ford Focus 1600 Diesel.

And this has been the result:

The "cockpit" has a special set-up because I have had to manage up to

6 Rtx(2 Yaesu FT100, 3 Kenwood TMD700, 1 Icom IC2500) in terms of safety in driving and efficiency in trasmitting.

This is the back trunk that nevertheless remains still available to carry laggages or shopping stuff.

And what about to get a look at the bottom of the roof? I had hard time to fix all antennas!!

With this car I have been at Friedrichshafen Ham Messe in Germany.

Below from left to right: IK5YOJ Joe, IK5ZUN Mark, IK1COA Alfred

In winter was working very well also

And here below my new car is still a Ford Focus mod. Titanium. Here I have made some other changes:

Rtx HF section

mobile HF Rtx: N°1 Yaesu FT100

Rtx VHF-UHF-SHF section

mobile VHF-UHF Rtx: N°1 Kenwood TMD700

mobile VHF-UHF Rtx: N°1 Kenwood TMD710

Antennas HF section

mobile ANTENNAS: HF N°1 Yeasu ATAS100 (modified)

AntennasVHF-UHF-SHF section

mobile ANTENNAS: VHF-UHF N°1 Diamond 2x5/8 in VHF and 4x5/8 in UHF

mobile ANTENNA: UHF-SHF N°2 Diamond 2x5/8 in UHF and 5x5/8 in SHF

and finally this it's me (on air from IM0LDV in cw 30m)

My activity now is done exclusively from /M either SSB or CW or BPSK31 and APRS, from 40m to 70cm bands.

Also active in Echolink at n°331251 (on 70cm) or at n°456490 (on 23cm)

Member of the DXpedition IA5/IQ5LV from Pianosa Island (Arcipelago Toscano EU-028). Web into www.iq5lvpianosa.altervista.org/index.html

Member of the DXpedition IM0LDV from San Pietro Island (EU-165). All info on QRZ.com or web into http://www.arivinci.com

Below some videos about my activity as Radioamateur:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4HWfJ8abYqU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=a2icSjxOLrA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Wzkxv_Miwnk

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kX_CAAOJKps

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iTBHGZKaNE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BzB5iyqk5a0

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83TrYUZh6RU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzuyJdlZdgA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u1511zDz98g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pnfC3aZi6CI

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5vVdVUBNLc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=O_N0nKq5qvY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfRYzY-Wq5g

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rAIc5KyG908

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UN5emQA3xDs

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lPl3oOv3Et8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8HUQlJ_cXH8

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UMAo3pHvQBY

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XNKC6RkaDqA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h0pwuEfrWDg

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DVNR0WJLs0U

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y7MnIw-q9Q

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sONl_-8Gb0Y

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7h6csGW8m98

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eDvLlpdUprU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S6hsH9fIKug

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oukqy5IwEwc

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OKf2E2hM0M

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WzuyJdlZdgA

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=83TrYUZh6RU

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4iTBHGZKaNE

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t5vVdVUBNLc&list=UUjbnDXc-EFwz6EFH4BQSFWg&index=6&feature=plcp

Rev. by IK5YOJ on Wen March 13th 2013 at 10:50Z