My name is Paolo, I was born in Pisa on 1967; now I’m living few kilometers from the city of Pisa, in Pèttori (jn53fq), 100 meters from the pisan border.   I work like chemist in apotheke near my qth, married with Valeria. You can see me and Valeria in the picture: she's a cooker, a nice work...isn't it ??

I like sports like tennis, american football, F1 car racing and my favourite hobby is ham radio, computering, paper money collection and when I was young I loved aeromodelism a lot.

For more than ten years enjoyed like speaker in a local private Radio Station working on FM: it was a great experience !!!

I worked on 11 mt band (CB 27Mhz) for long time, then on 1995 I succeded in my OM first class licence.

My shack is very simple:

mostly, I work on HF using Kenwood 870 and old  model 690S-AT  for digimodes with handmade LEP interface, my power is 100Watt maximum; my antennas are Deltaloop dipole for 40/15m, a long wire dipole (T200A 4:1) one for 40 m, one for 20m both up 1m from the roof of my resede.   

I’ve also an ECO HF8 vertical multiband antenna 4 meters up in the garden, that you can see with my setup under the snow on November 2005 on the left. 

For my poor VHF activity you see a Comet GP1 over the top on upper left pic.

During my portable or vacation activity I use Icom 706I, handmade tuner and my dipoles or, as in last months for DCI activity, the multiband vertical antenna from ECO up over my car.

I've some nice vintage/surplus radio, and  some are functional other are not.

But unfortunately the time to dedicate to my hobby is very poor.

Sometimes I play in local PCL node ik5pwj-6 or ik5zuk-6 looking for dxinfo.

Some other of my activities and qsl in the past could be seen here.