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On the former "Air Force One" (Boeing 707). Dayon (Ohio - USA) Air Force Museum, May 2007.
My new shack from February 2009. I had the surprise to see me on the brochure of Ham Radio 2008 in Friedrichshafen. Left me, right Aldo I2AOX Hi! 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 in 1981 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. In 2006 I got #1 DXCC Honor Roll. From May 2007 ARRL Volunteer Examiner. Untill today (May 30th 2009) my score is: All 338 DXCC (340 with deleted) entities confirmed and credited on Phone 106 DXCC entities worked on 160 m. and 100 confimed! 105 DXCC entities worked on 6 m. 318 DXCC entities worked on RTTY 2611 DXCC entities worked for Challenge and 2054 confirmed 816 IOTA worked and 564 confimed
My rig: Icom IC-970H (with UX-97 23 cm. unit, UX-R96 60-900 MHz sub rx, UT-34) HF amp 2x GU74b (main) and FL-2100Z (spare). Kenwood TM-D710 on my car as APRS mobile station with AvMap Geosat 5 plus navigator as APRS station display Icom IC-2820 (with UT-123) Ant. tuners: Magnum MT 3000DX and MFJ-949E. About 10 HTs: Icom IC-E92D, Icom IC-T81E, Kenwood TH-D7, Alinco DJ-C7, Puxing PX-777, Motorola). HF ant. (10, 12, 15, 17, 20, 30 and 40) Sommer XP-507. The beam is supported with a 10 meters telescopic pole by Prosistel and rotated with a computer controlled Prosistel PST641D rotator. 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 top 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 APRS activity: Home: On the air from 1999. From november 2004 (H24 7/7) a weather station transmits datas both on 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 handle two dual port TNCs (Kantronics KAM and Kantronics KPC-4) and one sound card interface. 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, 430.800, 10.147.
Mobile (car), call IK2CHZ-9: Kenwood TM-D710 and AvMap G5 Mobile (motorbike), call IK2CHZ-10: Kenwood TH-D7e2 (plus 30W amplifier), Garmin Street Pilot III Portable, call IK2CHZ-7 (fixed) or IK2CHZ-8 (mobile): Subnotebook Sony Vaio TX3 with HDSPA mobile internet connection Pocket, call IK2CHZ-2 (fixed) or IK2CHZ-8 (mobile): smartphone with GPS Glofiish M-800 (Windows mobile 6) running AGWTracker for Pocket PC by SV2AGW See my weather display live HERE! and more...
Active as TU5IJ (QTH Nassian) in January 1999. ID9/IK2CHZ (Stromboli Is.) in July 2003. SV8/IK2CHZ (Ios Is.) in September 2005.
My other big passion is aviation and I have aeronautical radiotelephony licence. My last mobile position (car): HERE My last mobile position (motorbike): HERE My WX station: HERE Last modified: Sun Jun 7 09:59:20 2009 Does this page contain inappropriate content? If so, Report this page... |
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