ABOUT US:

Vallis Aurea Radio Club 9A1BTU is situated in beautiful baroque town Pozega, in Northeastern part of Croatia. WW Loc is JN85UH. We're found in 1947 and now we have some 100 members holding A, B, C, and P licenses.

According to history documents, there was sporadic Amateur Radio activity in Pozega after the WW1. All OMs from this time worked as Unlicensed Amateurs, because Amateurs were not permitted to transmit, till year 1946.

First Club's callsign issued was YU2BTU, later we got YU2CAE and YU2CKV. Prefixes were changed from YU2 to 9A1 as ITU recognized Croatia as independent state in 1992. During the 1997 we had celebrated our big 50 years anniversary with various Amateur Radio activities. Club was active on all bands with special commemorative callsign 9A50VA (Nine Alpha Five Zero Victor Alpha). This was the first 9A50 prefix issued ever. Amateurs that worked with this station received nice full color, double sized QSL card. Visit Pictures to view a copy of our QSL Cards.

In 2004-2008, Club's President is Kresimir Milinkovic, 9A4KM, and following Members:

Executive Committee:

  • Milutin Timarac, 9A9AU, (Secretary, QSL Manager, Chief CW operater)
  • Boris Horvat, 9A3TN, (VHF Contest Manager)
  • Mladen Katic, 9A4KA, (HF Contest Manager)
  • Mirjana Di Giorgio
  • Drago Mikel, 9A2XF, (Young HAM's teacher)
  • Darko Ronko, 9A7GMB, (Electronics and RF)
  • Mirko Pulic, 9A3LP, (treasurer)
  • Ladislav Bartaky, 9A3TG

Court of Honour:

  • Oto Horvat, 9A6SHO
  • Vjekoslav Piha, 9A2WL
  • Slavko Srdic, 9A7DOB

Auditing Committee:

  • Josip Franic, 9A3TM
  • Vladimir Karakatic, 9A4KV
  • Josip Ozbolt, 9A7JFR

ACTIVITIES:

9A1BTU can easily be heard on CW part of all HF bands, all mode during 6m/2m/70cm contests as 9A4P, and on Packet radio. During contests, we work from a nice location on a hill (JN85UG), some 6 km from Pozega. With great help of City Mayor Prof. Branko Skorup, who provided a place in village school house, we have raised antenna tower, put necessary wirings, and in Spring 1997 send our first signals from there. In Pictures gallery you can view pictures from this location, antenna system (4*17el F9FT at 2m + 2*9el Delta Loop at 20m high tower).

EQUIPMENT:

  • Yaesu FT920 160-6m
  • Kenwood TS790E 2m/70cm all mode
  • Kenwood TM751 2m all mode
  • 300W 2m Mirage amplifier
  • 3 element Friztel beam for 14-21-28MHz
  • 3 band GP antenna for 14-21-28MHz
  • Horizontal open dipole for 3.5 and 7MHz
  • 5 element beam for 6m
  • 17 element horizontal F9FT (Tonna) for 2m
  • 12 element vertical DL6WU for 2m
  • 2*7/8 Diamond co-linear antenna for 2m
  • 20 element horizontal F9FT (Tonna) for 70cm
  • 2*20 element vertical Delta Loop for 70cm
  • and a bunch of homebrew equipment, 2 Desktop PC's and laptop one...

Past six years (1999-2004) POZEGA VHF and HF contests under our organization experienced great activity. We're happy about your increased interest and participation this year!

POZEGA 2005 Contest rules are available here...