I am interested in all VHF weak signal modes (MS, EME, Aurora,
Es, Troposcatter, F2).
Up to now I worked 406 squares in 60 DXCC countries (via
Tropo/MS/ES/Aurora/F2) and 5 more squares via EME, all with a single Yagi and
about 300 W.
In the seventies/eighties, I have been active from
JN65hq, a small town in the Venetian countryside, where I got my best results in VHF with a TC20, a 20 elements Yagi antenna made by
I2ODI.
In the years 1996 through 2010, my station was located in
JN55wj (center of Padova), a quite poor site for VHF DX activity, because of heavy radio noise coming from many urban sources, including a lot of computers and servers in offices and laboratories of the University campus. In this position I operated with a 17 elements
F9FT Yagi antenna, but my take off from there was acceptable only into directions from 20 to 180 degrees.
At the end of 2011 I moved my station to the outskirts of Padova in
JN55vk, where I installed a
LLY (Log-Loop-Yagi) antenna by
I3DLI. I am still setting up my new station, but my first feeling about the new conditions is positive.
Contest maps
Here are some maps of my contest activity (EDI visualizer by UT4UKW):
Year 2016
July 2016.
Year 2015
Year 2014
Year 2013
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);
- 19 elements LLY (Log-Loop-Yagi) antenna by I3DLI;
- solid-state LD-MOS Beko power amplifier HLV-1000;
- 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:
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.