Biography

With GOD approved, I was starting the journey on this earth on 8th July 1960 in Oradea city, Bihor county, ROMANIA and I started learning morse at 11 years old from the one who was YO5AMF Farkas Alexandru, now Silent Key. I became SWL YO6-17042/SB at 19 years old. I begun in 1981 with my first call YO5CUU, with a home brew syncrodina transceiver in 80 meters on tubes, at TX about 5W, in cw, with a home made LW antenna.
I was fascinated by the lighting of a 6-volt light bulb inserted between this antenna and the ground socket. Where does the energy to keep the light in the bulb, come from??? Then I was fascinated by the propagation from the 70s on 10 meters with 5 meters of wire, Australia was working as if they were in the next room! How they can talk thru that short wire like antenna from so far way? And so this wonderful world of hamradio began for me!

I like CW, Digital and SSB. I work in HF but also in VHF-UHF where I work on repeaters, locally and in the national Ro Link network. I'm still testing the EFHW antenna on HW which I'm trying to make resonate in as many bands as possible. I also like working in QRP. From about 2000 started a long time of hamradio inactivity, until my girls grow up and I became retired!!!

And now some short video clips about my city: Oradea
To return to QRZCQ YO5IM page: click on the x in the upper right corner from the youtube file about Oradea city, to close the page from Youtube about Oradea city on the Internet browser. Thank You!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JPvIgaSTFMY

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wwaqhfS01-A

From August 24, 2021 I became YO5IM (a Romanian-YO, from district 5: (I)ancu (M)ircea Hi!) And so I am back in the air on HF from may 2023!

Well, I wish you wonderful DX

All the best, May God take care of us in this activity as well as in everything in our journey on this earth!!!


Mircea, YO5IM, 73&72 from Oradea, Romania!

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

Icom 735 https://www.rigpix.com/icom/ic735.htm line, EFHW multiband antenna in a sloper position up from 28m, down to 12m, 40,34 meters long(in test, maybe too long: the dips are below HF bands, except 10 meters with dip at 29,400 Mhz!!!)

In the meantime (from 25 of August 2023), I purchased a Yaesu FTdx 10 https://www.rigpix.com/yaesu/ftdx10.htm - HF transceiver and after shortening the length by approximately 60 cm of the EFHW antenna (it is now 39.75 meters approximately, in a sloper position at about 28 meters high from my 9 floors block - down to about 12 meters hang under a neighbor window at second floor from another block with 4 floors), the resonances approached the band of the portion of cw 40 meters (6.926Mhz) and are inside the bands of 20(14,200Mhz), 15(21,080Mhz) and 10(29,200Mhz) meters. And with the internal tuner from FTdx10 it also works in the warc bands respectively in 10 Mhz 18 Mhz, and 24.9 Mhz where I have done the tests... I still have to test the 160 meter band and in 80 meters I made a CW QSO with only 5 w, although the antenna resonates at 3380Khz!!! I purchased with the help of a very good friend YO5OAI, Lali, a magnetic paddle for cw. Thank God for everything. May His name be glorified forever Hallelu YAH!

From October 25, 2023, I added an Icom 7300 https://www.rigpix.com/icom/ic7300.htm , with FT8 in mind and more. Maybe in the future I will also return to digital communications... I just started FT8, with the Icom 735 line in the spring-summer of 2023.

In may-june 2024, I installed and tested a 40.65 (13,55+27,1)meters Hari (double) Windom multiband antenna with 1:6 impedance transformer (feeded at 1/3 part from the end of antenna), completed with 2 extensions(to add the 30 and 15 meter bands, respectively 9,5+0,28=9.78 and 4,8+0,14=4.94 meters wire), all installing in the attic of the 9-story building under the roof. A 8 multiband antenna, but because it is under the clay tile roof, and next to the 2 stairwells, next to the 2 elevators houses and 2.25 meters up from the bridge floor, and only 25-30cm bellows the roof...an MFJ-939 https://www.rigpix.com/accessories/mfj_939.htm (automatic tuner) is also required for the 80 meter band to the area SSB and SSB DX. Maybe better a manual tuner MFJ-945E https://www.dxengineering.com/parts/mfj-945e?srsltid=AfmBOopowYCauXe-zTInCq1J3hEiXrseZrVOOm84ZyWC7yfodUN5mR5A etc. I use about 31 meters H155 coax cable and I put 2x6 turns (6 turns, crossover and again 6 turns) on a 240-31 ferrite ring from the same coax at 22 feet(6,7 meters) from the impedance transformer 1:6. So this 22 feet of the externs side of coax(the metallic braid of the coaxial cable) is also part of antenna like the VERTICAL-(TILT) PORTION... (after roof inclinations). Also this Hari Double Windom antenna is in tests like the EFHW antenna. Verry verry hard conditions!!!

After much analysis and on Rob Sherwood - NC0B and Robert Nagy - AB5N advices, I decided to buy a transceiver with 2 receivers, specialized in CW DX SPLIT traffic. From September 15, 2025 without waiting for Black Friday, finding out that the price in the USA will increase by 600 dollars with the discontinuation of the cheaper 22 variant and will be replaced by the 32 variant, which is about 15-20% more expensive(600$), I decided and bought a new Icom 7610 https://www.rigpix.com/icom/ic7610.htm , but the cheaper 22 variant from Italy Europe through YO2CK. And technically I don't regret it at all, but where are the limits of this passion, where is God in these choices, and what are the priorities in my life in relation to Him? It's a real pleasure to navigate the pile up while listening on headphones, to the DX in one ear thru the receiver nr. 1, and in the same time, with the other ear using receiver nr 2, you or me, looking for the DX correspondent in the pile up to discover the frequency on which the DX is listening to his correspondent. If you or me, find it(the DX correspondent frequency), so that, at the end of the current DX's QSO, you or I, can transmit exactly into the DX's ear, maybe he hear us signals, so we have the chance to have a qso with him to obtain a new one from the DX list!!! Probably if I had waited for Black Friday in November, it would have cost more with all the discount, than I paid for it in the first decade of September 2025. Or maybe not?!? I hope I didn't rush and still could have bought it cheaper on B.F. in November 2025!?!?!? So in the meantime, now(writing this conclusion) we are in december 2025 and I find that I paid in september(with a little discount) the same price like the price from Black Friday in november, so about 3400 E at Media Globe from Italy and the same price from the site of YO2CK - my friend Cristi! So GOD BE BLESSED for help me to had a good decision to buy the Icom 7610 in september 2025(The "32" variant has include the 60 meters band and in "22" type the 60 meters band is not included from factory, but it can be with some modification for who want it, I do not want)!!! I feel guilty before God: How far will we run for perfection in this passion of ours - amateur radio - and at what cost? Is it really worth it? How does this help us in God's world? What is my limit? but yours? 2-3 years ago when I restarted amateur radio activity again after about 20 years break, I had the Ic 735 line on my desk, than Ic 7300, maybe for FT8-FT4(a future project), FTdx10 for desk (now in a box, like back up), FT710 https://www.rigpix.com/yaesu/ft710aess.htm , only for Field(but not use yet, like a future project!), FT 891 https://www.rigpix.com/yaesu/ft891.htm , for mobile(but not use yet, like a future project!) and now...Ic 7610 for nice CW DX SPLIT operations using the 2 receivers in Dual Watch and Split mode with a very beautiful silent QSK which are not in all others (except the old Ic 735 line) and a very effective Audio Peak Filter with adjustable gain!!! I pray to God to forgive me! And from now, my passion will be oriented more and more towards God and less towards amateur radio, maybe a little bit of radio traffic time to time! I pray to God to help me with this. Hallelu YAH Amen Amen!


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Thank God for everything. May His name be glorified forever Hallelu YAH!(Hallelujah is a transliteration of Hebrew: הַלְלוּ יָהּ (hallū yāh), which means "praise ye Jah!"The second part, Yah, is a shortened form of YHWH, and is a shortened form of his name "God, Jah, or Jehovah")

Thanks for your visit on YO5IM, QRZ CQ page! God bless us! Amen! Amen Hallelu YAH!!

Mircea, YO5IM, 73&72 from Oradea, Romania!