Biography

Mitja (MIKE) S55G ex.calls : S57LWG & S56LWG

QTH: DRAGA a small town near Slovenia/Italian border line

abt. 30km North of Trieste and Koper and abt. 140km E of Venice

Member of: Radio club "Burja" S55W / S51WND & SCC Slovenia Contest Club

After almost over a decade i restart again in activity with my hobie as Hamradio..... work,famly and other importat stuff like career and building my own house demanded his stuff and time in the past so there was no possibility to be active... also due some bad luck all my previus logs with my ex calls and recent call on my old PC due an disk falure are lost orever.......so an must re-started from point blank was an must...

Here we are...

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

S55G NEW ERA - Siginificant changes @QTH

End of summer 2018 buying brand new radio IC-7300 to get "company" to an old one Kenwood TS-690S

Started in April 2018 with works on tower (painting, hardware etc) on tower ,excavations & building the base of the tower, deploying earth/lighting protection lines,building anchoring points..etc... Tower and antennas assembled & riesd up on day 05.10.2018 afternoon. The 17,5m antenna tower with Yaesu G-800S rotor (thrust bearings,wind shock assorber) and brand new HF LZA-10-5 antenna (10 element - 5 band 10-12-15-17-20m) with UHF/VHF Daimond X-300 antenna on top. Will be added soon inverted Vee antenna for 80m,60m, the weather station is in plan too. Below the tower and antenna on the tower fundaments will be soon builded the radio operator shack (abt 20mt/m2).Meanwhile also the "garden" project has run beside the tower poject too... so in my fruit garden a bunch of vertical antennas has arised up... 2x40m and 2x30m homemade fiberglass &tree supported vertical with elevated radials -both systems are phased and relay direction control...so in conjunction with allready deployed 80m full size horizontal Loop antenna and 80m tunable inverted vee antena they complete my litle home "antenna farm" with bands covered :

70cm 5el homemade yagi ,2x Daimond X-300
2m 5 el homemade Yagi ,2x Daimond X-300
6m homemade 5el Yagi
10-20m LZA 10-5 (10el 5 band 10-12-15-17-20m)
30m 2x30m homemade fiberglass supported vertical, 30m Double bazuk
40m 2x40m homemade fiberglass supported vertical
80m fullsize homade horizontal loop antenna
80m inverted Vee antena dipole -tuned with Drake MN2000 on all bands from 10-80m

Running "barefoot" Icom IC-7300
Yaesu FTM-350AK
Yaesu FT-51R handy
Baofeng UV-3R
Anytone AT-D878UV DMR

Antenna tower 17,5m @ 92m asl