Biography

Start my activity in 1976 - Sept.

My Activity is involved on:
- worked on SAT 2m & 70cm from 1979 until 1988 (NOT NOW).
- worked on 70cm for Tropo SSB DX and Contest 1976 until 2010 (NOT NOW).
- worked on 2m for Tropo SSB DX and Contest 1976 until 2010 (SOME TIMES NOW).
- ACTIVE on 1296 MHz for Tropo SSB DX and Contest from 1988 (Call me in HF, 50 or 2m for sched).
- ACTIVE on50 MHz for Tropo SSB DX from 1996 (active now).
- ACTINE on HF from 2005 (active now)

My Best DX:
- 144 MHz DX EA5IO 1492 km tropo (Potable /8 from Calabria, Punta Capo Vaticano, to Spanish)
- 50 MHz DX LU2FFD (from my shack)

My home-brewed realization:
preamplifiers:
- 70cm CF 300 1,2 dB NF 12 dB gain
- 23cm MRF 1312 0,9 dB NF 10 dB gain
- 2m BF 981 0.9 dB NF 10 dB gain
linear amplifiers:
- 70cm MHz 2C39 50 W
- 6m MHz 2x 6JB6 100 W
- 2m MHz QQE0640 100 W
Frequency counter:
- 3 input for read frequency from 10 Hz to 2,3 GHz
Spectrum analyzer:
- from 50 kHz to 300 MHz used over HP180 Scope.
Logarithmic Detector:
- with 80 dB dynamic from100 kHz to 900 MHz and 1,5 dB flat over the band wind.
QRP gear:
- ILER-40 40m DIY SSB gear 5W

My Future realization:
- AF filter Notch/Pass Band old stile (used simple 4x TL81 integrator filter).
- AF speech processor old stile (used JFET & Transistors).
- Pulsed Driver for dual state RF SWITCH with 2 o 1 coil with Arduino microprocessor.
- linear amplifier: 2m 2x S-AV36 (TOSHIBA modules) for 140W.
- DDS Scalar Network analyzer from 1MHz to 60MHz with Arduino Microprocessor.
- DDS Dual VFO with Arduino microprocessor.
- Linear amplifier: HF 2x IR510 50W for QRP gear.

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

My shack is equipped by:
- ILER-40 40m DIY QRP SSB gear
- two Drake TR-7 HF gear,
- one Icom IC-707 HF gear,
- one Yaesu FT-736R VHF/UHF gear, with follow extension:
- FEX-736-1.2 - 23 cm band unit, 10 W
- FEX-736-50 - 6 m band unit, 15 W
- TV-736 - Amateur TeleVision adapter (AM-video)
- Keyer unit B - Electronic iambic keyer
- XF-455MC - CW narrow filter (600 Hz)
- FTS-8 - CTCSS unit
- one RM Italy VLA-150 6m 150 W Linear Amplifier and
- one Yaesu FL-2100B HF 500 W Linear Amplifier
- one Home-brew Keyer iambic with PIC microprocessor
- two DRAKE RV-7 external VFO for TR-7 Transceiver
- one DRAKE SP-75 speech processor for TR-7 Transceiver
- one DRAKE MS-7 external speaker for TR-7 Transceiver
- two DRAKE 7077 desk top microphone for TR-7 Transceiver

used as followed:

In HF from 40 to 10 m:
- The first Drake TR-7 + Yaesu FL-2100B 500w linear amplifier over Mosley PRO67C3 Antenna 6 band 40/10m on 40 feet tower.

In HF from 80 to 10 m:
- The second Drake TR-7 (or Icom IC-707) over Windom Antenna 7 band 80/10m homebred at 35 feet height.

In 6m SSB/CW:
- Yaesu FT-736R + VLA-150 150w Linear Amplifier over 6 elements 20 feet WiMo Yagi Antenna on 40 fett tower.

In 23cm SSB/CW
- Yaesu FT-736R over 67 elements 20 feet WiMo Yagi Antenna on 40 feet tower.

- 2m SSB/CW:
Yaesu FT-736R over 14 elements JBEAM Quagi Antenna on 40 feet tower.

In 2m & 70cm FM_
- Yaesu FT-736R over X-200A Diamond vertical GP dual band antenna at 25 feet height.