Biography

I took my hamradio license: IK5BCU on 10 July 1982, when I was 18 years old, by following the informations shared by my school professor, I5ESR.

My first interests were DX, expecially on Low-Bands. I practiced CW and RTTY and some international Contests.

After a little pause of minor radio interest, I come back again playing with Digital Transmissions:

Packet-Radio, Tcp/Ip, Internet. In my last hamshack I had a KENWOOD TS-950 SDX and a Linear Amplifier with a 3CX800. I have been an avid dx-hunter and also a Long-Path attender on the 75meters band. I still remember the big effort to put a 350 meters Beverage Antenna inside my dense woodlands.

For my Tcp/Ip AX25 transmissions I used an ICOM IC-2000 and AeA PK-88 tnc at 1.2Kbps then I added a DRSI DPK-9600 and a Motorola GM350 to my Packet Radio equipment. Also I configured a Linux machine running JNOS 1.11e and operated into the AMPR.ORG subnet as ik5bcu.ampr.org.

In February 2007 I moved definitely to Brazil where I live now in Rio de Janeiro and I finally received my new class A call-sign PY1ZRJ from Agência Nacional de Telecomunicações (Anatel).

My radio shack currently holds just a small V-UHF HT, the Baofeng UV5-R and an homemade dual-band OSJ antenna, I keep listening some ham radio frequencies through WebSDR, and chatting over ECHOLINK; hope soon I will be back on air with HF equipment by my new PY1ZRJ call-sign, so stay tuned!

Updated on March 09 2016: I added to my shack my old ICOM IC-2000 and a second-hand YAESU FT-107M. I build a Magnetic Loop antenna and I had some QSO on 40M band both SSB and CW.

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

BAOFENG UV 5-R
Icom IC-2000
OSJ 144/430 dual-band homemade antenna
Yaesu FT-107M
Magnetic Loop homemade antenna