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