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MILAN STOJILJKOVIĆ, JEZERO 135, SI-1352 PRESERJE, SLOVENIA

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To celebrate the first 30 years (1974 - 2004) of my radio-amateur activity I decided to create this web page. I hope you'll find something interesting for you here. This page is dedicated to my friends from Radio club “Elektron” Brežice - YU3ACP.

Jezero, December 2003

Last updated August 29, 2004

Biography

Hello dear visitor! My name is MILAN. I was born on March 25th, 1960 in Brežice, Slovenia.

My radio amateur's path started at the age of thirteen in 1973. I was in the eighth grade when my elmer Tone Hribernik S52MA (ex. YU3UHA) came to our primary school and organized a course for radio-amateurs . On June 13th, 1974 a few friends of mine (Bogdan Barbič, Tomi Kastner - later S52TK (YU3TOL), YL Neda Pečnik) and myself passed "III rd class" exam.

After that I worked for 6 years as an operator on a club station YU3ACP now S59ACP in Brežice, Slovenia. We were allowed to work low power on 80 and 40 meters and on VHF and we were obligated to do at least 80 CW QSOs a year. At first we worked on a home made HF "SSB transceiver" and used wire antennas - a dipole for 80 m and a W3DZZ. Later we got an Yaesu FT101E.

Even though the working conditions were poor this was the time when I met a lot of good friends and really enjoyed my hobby. Let me mention just some of them from the “famous” YU3ACP team beside those of course whom I mentioned before: Vlado Pucko S52PT (YU3TRA), Ciril Medvešček, Ronald Kleč, Ivan Kovačič S52UK (YU3UKP), (X)YL Mojca Barbič (Planinc) S51RX (YU3TRX, YU3RX), (X)YL Damjanka Kovačič (Barbič), Sašo Planinc (YU3TRY, YU3RY), Drago Deržič S51XA (YU3UDZ, YU3XA), Slavko Hafner S51YI (YU3TEL, YU3YI), Goran Šalamun, YL Marta Božič, Dušan Dukič S52DD (YU3TGU), Dušan - Dule Kostrevc S52NR, Oleg Mamilovič, Marjan Zupančič (YU3HHS), Boris Čelik S57A (YU3TGN, YU3AN), Branko Tucovič–Tuco YU3TBF, Miloš Prijatelj YU3HAQ, Bojan Ivnik YU3UAQ, Zvone Molan YU3TUO, Vito Molan YU3TUD, Jože Uhan YU3TUG... and many more.

You can see that some of my YL friends later acquired my OM friends’ last names. I really wonder how could this happen ;).

In 1980 I passed my "B class" exam and got the first personal call sign YU3TEX. With this exam I also earned access to the higher frequency bands (20, 15 and 10 mtrs). I got me my first own radio station - an used Trio TS-510 (built in 1969) which is still operational in my shack. In 1984 I moved to Ljubljana, the capital of Slovenia. Due to a change of the rules in 1988 I was forced to change my call sign again to a 2 letter suffix call YT3KY. In 1990 I moved to a small village called Jezero (The Lake) in the vicinity (10 kilometers south) of Ljubljana where I still live. In 1991 Slovenia won its independence and a year later I got my present call sign S55DX. Now I am a member of Radio club Bober (Beaver) S59DIA in Vnanje Gorice, Slovenia.

In all these years there were ups and (mostly;) downs in my activity but in 2003 I finally took time to boost my activity again. I equipped my shack with an Icom IC-746PRO and an Ameritron AL-572 linear amplifier, erected a homebrew 10 meter tilt tower and put a 4 element 6 band yagi (DHF-6 by Eco antenne) on top of it. Now days you can find me DX-ing on HF bands again.

In 2004 I prolongated the tower to 15 mtrs and hung two home made inverted V dipoles for 80 and 40m, perpendicular to each other on it. These dipoles serve as guy lines for the mast. Now I’m QRV from 80 to 10 meters.

QSL Information

I am a member of the Zveza radioamaterjev Slovenije (Association of Radio Amateurs of Slovenia) since 1974, so you can send me your QSL card via S5 bureau.

If you are in a hurry please send me your card and a SASE to my postal address :

MILAN STOJILJKOVIĆ

JEZERO 135

SI-1352 PRESERJE

SLOVENIA

I do NOT send QSL cards for each QSO I have, but positively answer each card I receive direct or via the bureau.

All cards received direct without sufficient return postage will be answered via the bureau. Sufficient return postage is 1 “green stamp” or 1 new IRC !

Electronic mail

s55dx@email.si

Web page

http://www.qsl.net/s55dx

My QSL card gallery:

YT3KY

S55DX

Photo gallery

YU3ACP (nw S59ACP) team

TS-510 line transceiver

IC-746PRO line transceiver

AL-572 linear amplifier

DHF-6 4 element 6 band beam

G-1000SDX antenna rotator

Tilt tower (homemade)

YU3ACP

This is how it all started for me in 1973/4. Tone S52MA (YU3UHA), YL Neda and YL Silva with a couple of CB walkie-talkies in their hands and myself.

Dušan S52DD (YU3TGU), Slavko S51YI (YU3TEL), YL Marta, YL Mojca S51RX (YU3TRX) and myself.

Tomi S52TK (YU3TOL), Bogdan YU3ACP, Drago S51XA (YU3UDZ) and myself on the top of Mt. Triglav (the highest peak in Slovenia 2864 m ASL) in 1981.

We were very thirsty when we climbed off the mountain. From left ro right Tomi S52TK (YU3TOL), Milan S55DX (YU3TEX), Drago S51XA (YU3UDZ) and Bogdan YU3ACP.

Sašo S51RY (YU3TRY), YL Mojca S51RX (YU3TRX) and Marjan (YU3HHS) in 1983.

Trio TS-510 line

External VFO-5D, TS-510 transceiver and PS-510 power supply (built in 1969) still operational in my shack.

Icom IC-746PRO line

IC-21 external speaker, IC-746PRO transceiver, PS-125 power supply

Ameritron AL-572

1,3 kW linear amplifier by Ameritron

in line with an ICOM IC-746PRO.

Eco antenne DHF-6

4 element 6 band yagi antenna for 30, 20, 17, 15, 12 and 10 meters on top of the 15m (50 ft) tilt-over tower. The “guy lines” are dipoles for 80 and 40 meters.