i1JTQ "Personal Page"
I was born in 1961 and I've got my OM licence in 1979. After few months of CW DX activity on short waves I started my interest to VHF, motivated by the possibilities offered by a great range of propagations mode.
Some pictures of my radio passion istory:
1980 Field day at 1600mt asl
1983 1989
1993
1998 ...with my dogs
Map of Squares worked on 144MHz from Turin city
DX on 144 MHz band:
Propag. DX(km) QSO DX locator AURORA 1.269 GW4VEQ IO73SG TROPO 1.106 GW3ZTH/P IO81FP SPORADIC E 2.745 4X1IF KM72KD M.S. 2.150 OH5LK KP30ON FAI 1.549 SV1BTR KM17VX
VHF band RIG:
RTX Kenwood TS850-s
Transverter SSB electronic LT2S
Home made 2x4CX250 power amplifier (K2RIW/W9OJI)
Home made MGF1801 (0.5dB N/F) preampl. (YU1AW/DJ9BV)
Home made 40Hz AF DSP filter (EME)
2x18 el. CushCraft
DTR and WSJT (for meteor scatter operations)
HF band RIG:
Drake TR4
Yaesu FT902
Kenwood TS850
3 elements Yagi (10-15-20 m. band)
1/4 wave l. 160m. band