In the seventies/eighties, I have been active from JN65hq.
Since 1996 I have been active from Padova, JN55wj. My present location is rather poor for VHF DX activity (town noise and computer QRM are often heavy). Anyway I am attempting to do the best possible job in this situation.

My logbook

Since I am blind, I have problems in managing paper QSL cards.
In order to overcome this issue, I have set up an experimental on-line version of my station logbook, with the possibility of displaying a confirmation sheet for each entry. I could recover my QSO entries back to 1978. Any remark to improve this function will be highly appreciated. Thank you.

I apologise with allOMs who did not receive my QSO confirmation and hope this attempt will offer a reasonable replacement for QSL card.

My VHF station

• transceiver ICOM IC-746, 100 W;
• receiver Drake R 4C with converter and preamplifier (1 dB NF);
• antenna 17 elements Yagi by F9Ft;
• power amplifier with 8930 tube (about 300 W). i
• DTR by DK7KF to decode high speed CW;

DX sounds

The background sound of this page is a sample of the recording I made during my random EME contact with K1WHS, FN43mj, in September 4, 1983 from JN65hq, with a single 20 elements long Yagi and 300 W power. On that Sunday afternoon, at the end of international September contest, my antenna was randomly pointed to the moon at its set position (at that moment, I was not aware of this circumstance). I heared a weak but very clear CQ de K1WHS in CW, then I answered and immediately got a 549 OOO report> and completed the QSO in few minutes.

Here you can listen to more DX sounds, including:

• Aurora opening of July 25, 1981.
• Aurora opening of March 31, 2001.
• Leonids meteor shower, November 19, 2002.

Any MS schedule proposals?

Either fill in the on-line form or send an E-mail message to my home or to my office.
To avoid TVI problems, I prefer early morning time.

Hamradio for blind people

This section (in Italian) is designed to present various contributions, due to different authors, all relating to devices, appliances, information that might be useful for blind amateur radio people, as part of their hamradio interests.

Questa pagina (in italiano) è dedicata a contributi di vari autori, tutti riguardanti accorgimenti, apparecchi, informazioni che potrebbero essere utili ai radioamatori non vedenti nell'ambito dell'esercizio dell'attività di radioamatore.

My pieces of software

In the good old times of MS-DOS, I made some pieces of freely usable software. You can see:

• Ham-radio software.
• Utility programs, particularly designed to be used on personal computers equipped with speech or braille devices. The package DOC can be configured to be used in any language; the remaining ones are in Italian.