K5IFA Callsign on QRZCQ.com

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2024-04-20 05:51:17 UTC

K5IFA

Active premium QRZCQ.com user

Claudiu "Claus" Rusu

Mckinney 75070
United States, TX

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Call data

Last update:	2021-12-02 17:49:04
QTH:	McKinney, TX
Continent:	NA
Premium:	YES
Views:	340
Main prefix:	K
Class:	General
Federal state:	TX
US county:	Collin
Latitude:	33.1643950
Longitude:	-96.6911411
Locator:	EM13PD
DXCC Zone:	291
ITU Zone:	7
CQ Zone:	4
ULS record:	4144797
Issued:	2019-04-02

Most used bands

15m
(20%)

20m
(19%)

40m
(17%)

17m
(14%)

12m
(11%)

Most used modes

FT8
(100%)

MFSK
(1%)

QSL data

Last update:	2021-11-30 04:59:28
Direct Manager:	W5KZJ
eQSL QSL:	YES
Bureau QSL:	YES
Direct QSL:	YES
LoTW QSL:	YES

Biography

Born in YO land a while ago, grew up under the shadow of the Great YO9AFY, licensed first as YO9IFA and currently as K5IFA.

TNX for visiting this page and 73!

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

Rigs: Icom IC-7300, Icom IC-7000, Yaesu FT-817, plus SG-239 tuner for HF bands (when needed); transverters plus PAs for 23cm and 13cm
Antenna setups: constantly changing antenna farm...
- inverted Vs for 80m and 40m.
- various over-sized (?), full-size, or shorted/loaded horizontal dipoles for 40m, 30m, 20m, 17m, 15m, 12m, and 10m
- vertical 1/4-wl configs for lower HF bands (80m to 17m)
- various Yagi configs for for higher HF bands (20m to 10m)
- various smaller antennas for VHF/UHF (Yagi configs, horz. dipoles, verticals, J-poles, simple loops, crossed loops, etc.)

QRZCQ Awards

DXCC 100

ITU 50

CQ 30

DX Code Of Conduct

I support the "DX Code Of Conduct" to help to work with each other and not each against the others on the bands.

Other images

K5IFA / Pic 2

K5IFA / Pic A

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