`PY3FF`

My name is Rafael Haag. I am 25 years old. First licensed at age 14 in 1987 as PU3RAH . I was always interested in electronics and build my first QRP at age 12 using tubes. Nowadays, I project radiotelescopes for listen remote radio sources...

EDUCATION

Graduate in Electronics (1992)
Graduate Physics student, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande do Sul ( 1993- )

MAINLY INTEREST

HF QRP ( more than 250 DXCC worked )
VHF, UHF DX ( soon EME... )
Propagation and antennas study
VLF experiments

STATION

BAND	RIG	ANTENNA
HF	FT101B	Yagi, Dipole, Long Wire, etc
50MHz	FT101B + HB transverter	1 WL Loop, yagi 5 el.
144MHz	FT480R, FT101B + HB transverter, P.A 250 Watts, LNA MGF1302	10 el. yagi DL6WU. Building 4 x 10 el
432MHz	FT101B + HB transverter, LNA MGF1302	4 x 19 el yagi DL6WU

Plus homebrew: audio filter, DC power, electronic keyer , transverters, etc...

ANTENNAS FOR 144 MHz AND ABOVE

144 MHz DJ9BV yagi

BOOKS

Radioastronomia, UFRGS, work supported by CAPES/PADCT, July 1995

ACADEMIC RESEARCH ACTIVITIES

Current research projects include (i) ground based study of ELF/VLF natural emission at multiple sites across the Brazil ( south atlantic magnetic anomaly ), (ii) theoretical modeling of resonant wave-particle interactions , (iii) investigations of ELF/VLF wave-particle interactions in the magnetosphere, and (iv) solar and planetary radioastronomy

MEMBER

American Geophysical Union
Stanford solar-terrestrial research group
American Radio Relay League

Planetary Society

Phone:: (051) 280-1047
Email:: rhaag@solar.stanford.edu; py3ff@qsl.net; haag@if.ufrgs.br

Last updated: april 13, 1999

PY3FF