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IU3KIE

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ANTONINO SPAGNOLO

37125 Verona ( VR )
Italy

EU
italy
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Call data

Last update:2020-08-09 09:04:33
QTH:North Italy
Continent:EU
Views:183
Main prefix:I
Class:A
Latitude:45.4791667
Longitude:10.9583333
Locator:JN55LL
DXCC Zone:248
ITU Zone:28
CQ Zone:15
Website:www.iu3kie.blogspot.it

Most used bands

2m
(49%)
40m
(18%)
70cm
(14%)
6m
(13%)
10m
(7%)

Most used modes

SSB
(100%)

QSL data

Last update:2019-08-07 20:56:51
eQSL QSL:YES
Bureau QSL:YES
Direct QSL:YES
LoTW QSL:no

Biography

Hello everyone, I am IU3KIE, my name is Antonino, I am 20 years old and I live in Verona, but I was born in Melito di Porto Salvo, a small town that is about 30 km from Reggio Calabria; I am a member of the Italian Amateur Radio Association A.R.I and in this short article I want to tell you how I am "born" in the great world of amateur radio.
For many I might seem very young, in fact I am, but I think periodically it is right to make a pit-stop to write a part of our lives; so I decided to tell you hamradio in the world my birth ON AIR. Everything starts when I was very young, when I started to play with the Pmr 446, fascinating me more and more of those voices and those sounds shrill and suspense that the radios gave me; then slowly with other young of Verona already hamradio operators. In the afternoons after school, we fantasized SUPER DX when we connected even just a German, rather than a station from Algeria, or even more simply a special call sign... The big welcome, however, surprise when, in December 2015, on facebook I was contacted by a young guy, blond and lively character, almost my age, who invited me to participate in the contest 40 & 80 Italy from the Bell of the Fallen of Rovereto, an important meeting place for the citizens of the world in memory of the great war. That activity represented for me the first approach with other guys of the group YOTA ITALY, then I was at the arbors of what would become my greatest passion; Taken by the enthusiasm, I organized and participated in that contest, aware that I would not transmit but that it would be the first opportunity to put myself at stake with others of my own age.I still remember the beginning of that day, a cold morning is foggy, when at sunrise, I took the train for the first time in autonomy... Maybe it was the first time I participated in an event in autonomy, maybe it was the first experience with one of my main sources of aspiration; fact is, I still remember that experience as something unpredictable. Thinking about it now, I smile, perhaps because I see myself reflected in many young people who approach the radio; the fact is that here I knew the man who, in his simplicity taught me to be myself, to believe in my actions, to be determined and convinced of what I do in daily life, the one who taught me to reason, to understand the important things in life, or perhaps, we say that it is he who took me in his arms and taught me to laugh. With this man our journey begins with a handshake and a pat on the shoulder, then I was not yet radio amateur is as soon as I knew the world that revolves around the world of radio; It was he, the first to put my headphones on and tell me "Come on Antonino!Those who don’t fight are already dead!" What I’m exactly conquering about that man is not
perhaps, the cold, determined and directional, but at the same time a great friend, who more than once has filled that void that has always accompanied me, that desire of dad, but not a non-existent dad, but a constructive figure, educational and determining in our childhood of men! So, begins my hamradio "career", yes, many will say "you’re still at the beginning", yes, but meanwhile we start to write a great book, made of smiles, cries, disappointments and surprises. The hamradio world gives me daily several memories, but the most beautiful that I hold in my heart is the teaching that he has transferred me, where, while closing so many friendships and relationships, I felt more than once alone, abandoned and put in the corner, Yes, because the world of radio amateurs we know is not only smiles indeed, even many grumps. In this man I have always found that feeling every young boy seeks in a bigger figure or simply that accomplice that we all need. All fathers have their own special whistle, their call, their way of knocking, their way of walking, their mark on our lives, we can believe we forget about it, but then, in the dark, where sometimes we meet, we feel a trillion of notes and our heart is lifted, and that’s when for one moment we get back to being five again and we wait to hear the footsteps of our father on the gravel of the driveway of our house... It is this, that in its simplicity He left me impressed...
I believe that what we become depends on what our fathers teach us at strange times, when in reality they are not trying to teach us... We are formed by these little fragments of wisdom...

That’s how IU3KIE Antonino was born.

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