Biography

For hunters, these are my usual activations: https://www.mountainqrp.it/profile/?call=I5ekx

I am a member of the Mountain QRP Club "MQC", Summits on the Air "SOTA UK", Parks On The Air "POTA" and of the Italian Radio Amateurs Association "ARI". Amateur radio since 1979, technical studies and always passionate about radio. Currently IT Manager in two motorway companies.

I am mainly active in HF, SSB - CW - FT8/4 - JS8Call - VarAC and V-UHF SSB and FM (R1 145.625 IR5H Livorno), POTA - AWARDS MQC - SOTA, digital C4FM & DMR - QRV TG 2241 (Toscana) and 22292 (national multi protocol Italy). ISS Packet/APRS and FM transponder.

Antenna: HF Infinity Halfwave Endfed 10-15-20-40-80m ** V-UHF Yagi 7 elem. VHF - 12 elem. UHF ** 50MHz 3 elem. Yagi SY 50-3 ** Vertical Diamond X-200 V-UHF.

I also use Winlink i5ekx @ winlink.org

In addition to the radio I am passionate about travel, motorcycling and photography, I have a blog in which I tell about OnTheAir https://blog.libero.it/ontheair/

Follow my live streams! --> https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCI2xztsFrAggpvk691LveNQ

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

I have four radios that I do outdoor activations with, two Yaesu, one FT-857D and the other FT-897D, plus an Icom IC-705 and a small USDR+ for QRP.

My other radios are: Yaesu FT-991A, Kenwood TS-850S AT, Yaesu FTM-400XDE, Yaesu FT-5DE, Anytone D878UV II Plus, Tytera MD-380UV GPS and Retevis RT3S with OpenGD77 FW, Tytera MD-9600 with OpenGD77 FW, Yaesu FT-411E, Quansheng UV-K5, Yaesu VX-8G, TIDRADIO H3.