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On the top, a sketch I made for my beloved mode in Ham Radio, CW ! (Many people ask me if I am left-handed, and the answer is that I am not. I just used my left hand as a model and I was sketching with my right hand. The key at the sketch is a beautiful Swedish Pump Key that has a great, liquid feeling when tapping it.)
On the left, my VHF CW EME array thanks to my elmer Jimmy SV1BTR ! (Please note the two red fitness dumbbells at the bottom of each vertical boom, to make the array balance!)
My name is Victoria and I was born on 1984 in Thessaloniki, Greece. Currently my main QTH lies at my hometown, Serres. I have just moved out from my student QTH from where I was active the last 3 years. I also changed my mailing address - if you have sent your QSL to my old address, no worries, I am and will be receiving my correspondence from there. My hometown, Serres (KN11sc), lies at the northern part of Greece and it's quite close to LZ borders - a rather small community at the countryside surrounded by tremendously beautiful mountains where I had the chance to be acquainted with an exciting activity, mountain hiking - at first with the one and the only man of my life, my dad Nikos (hi!) and then with the "gang" of the local Alpine Club in Serres ! The foto you see up in my profile, is taken during an amazing long hiking trip I enjoyed in TF land, Iceland and the picture below is from another hike I had at Olympus mountain, in SV (I climb up to Olympus every year, if you ever come to SV and need assistance with mountain hiking issues, reservations or itinerary inquiries, email me, I will gladly help) Some other things that thrill me and I try to practice them as often as I can, include amateur astronomy (observational deep-sky astronomy as well as telescope building), cycling (both mountain and road), horse-riding, travelling anywhere worldwide with civilized means of transport (railway/maritime/or whatever which travels on two wheels) and during winter months I love cross-country skiing.
Currently, as a new member in Ham Radio community, I simply enjoy being on the air, whether it's running a station while on a contest or working DX, operating QRP while camping, however my passion is working CW, a mode which fascinated me a lot from the early beginning when I had to learn it for my license exams - ever since I found out that this is my mode, CW the magic carpet ride of Ham Radio ! However, the real Continuous Wave apocalypsis came rather late to me, when I met a fine and kind man, one of the world´s-best-known-DXers, while on VK9LA expedition. Bob N2OO turned out to be the elmer who was holding the "keys" to the CW magic world and generously gave them to me. I feel heartfelt thankful to Bob for his patience and generosity that changed my ham radio perspective, giving it a true touch of class and joy. Ever since, CW turned out to be my passion, my own potential. Although morse code exam has been dropped in many countries (in SV it's still a requirement for the HF privileges) I strongly believe that CW comprises the half joy of our hobby, for me it's the soul and the beating heart of Ham Radio. Early April, thanks to my elmer Jimmy SV1BTR, I got on the air on 2m CW EME experiencing this way the ULTIMATE DX ! My 144MHz EME setup is as follows: 4x17el 3.3wl yagi's - GU74B by LZ2US - MGF 1302. The paddle I use is the Schurr Profi 2, I love it ! If you are interested in this exciting mode of communication, don't hesitate to get in touch with the CW EME community: they will do all the best for you to help you get on the air and click away the most thrilling QSOs ever ! But apart from CW and space amateur communications, another obsession I have is my passion for the Quad antennas. The Queen of the antennas !!! These antennas are by far my favourite, for some inexplicable reason I am in love with them and I try to study them, understand them and -hopefully- build a big one in the near future ! There is also another reserved place in my radio-heart and this is for mountain-topping operations and further on, I appreciate very very much QRP (and portable !!) operation, which I regard it to be the quintessence of wireless communications ! My HF station is equipped as follows: 3-band homebrew Quad antenna, a GAP Titan DX vertical antenna that has made me happy and proud many times, my beloved all-singing all-dancing ICOM IC-7000, my comfy Heil Pro Plus headset which has become a natural extension of my body and my LDG AT-1000 antenna tuner which has harmoniously matched many antennas to my TRX in a very happy matrimony :) And the most precious jewels of my station, each one of them with unique beauty, clicking away many happy QSOs for me: Schurr Profi 2 Morsetasten, Kent Hand Key, Swedish Pump Key. They are all of them objects of equal worship for me. I also use a portable Spiderbeam antenna (that works GREAT), a Buddipole and for 2m FM mountaintopping I use a 3-element SOTAbeam. A pretty 144MHz 4-element Quad antenna serves for local ragchewing. I am also enthused when flying my Cody kite (2,5m wingspan) with various vertical wire antennae when on field operation. And still looking forward for more! Last, but not at least, regarding my QSL card policy.. Dear friends of Amateur Radio, I strongly believe that qsl'ing is one of the most important activities of our hobby and hence an "obligation" of any radio-amateur. As a proof of a bilateral communication they're necessary for us in order to claim awards or confirm a qso itself. The way that you will get my card, depends primarily on you: whatever you wish ! Either via Bureau or direct it's ok ! ALL my QSO's are anyway printed on automatically generated QSL's and sent via the bureau, however if you need something faster you can use the postal address above for a direct request (return postage is not necessary -I always reply all the incoming QSLs sooner or later- but it's welcome if you can afford it: 1$ -or 1IRC- is enough). Apart from these, although I am not a big fan of eQSL.cc I do upload my logs there for those who are. I also hold a norwegian callsign, LA7VPA, which I primarily use when in Norway, so you can probably listen to me on air with this callsign as well.
Proud and HAPPY member of the following amateur radio clubs:
If for any reason you need to contact me, please feel free to do it; I'd be glad to read your email. All the best 73+88 (and special 33 to YLs !!) and I hope to meet you on the air ! I wish you wholeheartedly HAPPY DXing: keep operating and experimenting !! CU later on ! Last modified: Fri Nov 13 19:06:38 2009 Does this page contain inappropriate content? If so, Report this page... |
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Through my beloved hobby, mountain hiking, I was always carried away to watch my fellow climbers using their handheld transceivers for their communication needs and this stimulated my interest for wireless communications. Apart from this, something else that brought me close to amateur radio was my mother's MW+SW receiver -and her passion for chasing DX broadcasting stations- with which I spent hundreds of hours listening to transmissions coming from near and far far away ! But it was no later than 2005 when I got licensed and discovered the real magic of another unvisible world which is always around us (and inside us !), the radiowave world !!