About MIKE, Miguel Gonzalez A. (ZP5YW)

Born 1956. First licensed October 1975. Dedicated to DX since first qsos. Married 1983 and moved to a new house with no ham-radio setup. Reinstalled station in 1991 and active since then with some pauses due to labor duties.

Earned DXCC and WAS 1977, 5 Bands DXCC 1992, 12-17m 5BDXCC endorsements 1993, DXCC Honor Roll 2000, 6 meters DXCC #397 2001 (the only 8 Band DXCC in ZP). Reached #1 DXCC Top of Honor Roll in 2001.

Member of:EPC # 19023, 30MDG # 6092, life member of Radio Club Paraguayo (former vice-president and awards' manager).

Current activity is mostly RTTY, JT65HF, JT9-1 and SSB on all bands from 6 to 80 meters.

Station setup: Kenwood TS-590 + Drake L4-B amplifier (fully updated), YAESU FT-680R (backup and monitoring 6m rig) + Mirage A-1015G 150W amplifier and 144-220-440 Mhz Kenwood FM rigs for local contacts

Antennas tower 1: (self supporting 20 meters high) with HyGain TH6DXX @ 20mH (10-15-20 meters), , 40 meters coil-loaded rotary dipole @ 22 mH, homebrew 6 el 7m boom yagi for 6 meters @ 24mH with DK7ZB 28 ohms dual-coax feed, 450 ohms ladder line fed 80m inverted V dipole @ 18 mH with MFJ-989B tuner.

Antennas tower 2: (self supporting 12 meters high) homebrew 6 elements 6m boom open-sleeve feed yagi with 3 el for 12 meters + 3 el for 17 meters @ 13mH (MMANA designed/optimized), 2 elements 4 meters boom yagi for 30 meters (derived from a 40m yagi) @ 16mH,

Auxiliary antennas: Butternut HF9V vertical (6-80 meters), with elevated radials (few but useful), coax trap loaded dipole for 10-80m inverted V for MFJ-1206 noise reducer, and VHF-UHF vertical.

Web page: http://www.qsl.net/zp5yw
eMail: zp5yw@qsl.net

QSL info: LoTW (preferred), eQSL.cc or bureau (really slow).

QSL manager: W5UE (please read THIS)
Randy Becnel
P.O. Box 170
Kiln, MS 39556-0170
USA

Please do not send cards directly to me, as the mail service is absolutely unreliable and rates are too high (up to 4 to 6 USD for.a simple letter) to some destinations, and IRCs are useless. Send them to W5UE. Please don't send any kind of mail to CBA, PO Box 2109 - Asuncion, as I don't hold that box anymore. PO Box 512 is fine with me, as it belongs to the RCP bureau service, but you'd rather send cards to my QSL manager.

Rev: ZP5YW - Apr-2013