Biography
Max - I2IOJ
BIO
I've been born in 1959and I'm native of Rome, Italy.
In 1976 I've got the call sign I0IOJ.
After a period of some years spent in Germany, from 1989 until 1997, from where you may have contacted me as DJ0KZ.
In 1997 I came back to Italy, in the Northern part, in the region of Bergamo (abt 20 Miles E of Milan), and got again an italian call sign, I2IOJ, that I still hold.
As a profession, I am Marketing and Sales Director of a company producing X-ray Tubes.
I live in Seriate, a small town (abt 20k inh.) very close to Bergamo, in northern Italy.
My FAMILY: my wife Eda, my son Valerio and my daughter Flavia...
I have spent my life between 1981 and 1985 in the Italian Army, where I was an officer of the Signal Corp.
While in the Italian Army as an officer of the Signal Corp, I established again the old and famous official amateur radio station of the Italian Army's Signal Corp National School, IK0MIL, formerly called I1MIL.
I designed the all station's set-up, radios, antennas, including the all shack's non-radio hardware, supported by the Signal Corp School's very helpful carpenters.
When I'm in my radio shack, I mainly listen, and very rarely take the microphone or the CW-key, or the keyboard, for QSO-ing.
The absolutely preferred mode is since ever CW.
I also like talking by phone with collegues in SSB and practicing in this way languages; but I also like very much the all digital modes.
I don't send QSL as a standard for each QSO, and prefer to reserve it to the situations when it is really needed, as for license's upgrades, for awards or for a specific wish. If somebody wants to get my QSL after a QSO with me, I will be very glad to send it to him; he is therefore kindly required just to ask it clearly.
You may find more information and pictures on my personal web site: http://www.maxig.eu/
OTHER HOBBIES
Little home repairs
Surfing the web
Reading (History - Biographies - Science - Science Fiction)
Fishing; Flyfishing in the Italian Alps
Bowling
Judo
Travelling
Languages
My job, as a hobby:
X-Ray tubes
Monobloc X-ray Generators
Producing X-ray Generators...
Best 73 de Max - i2ioj
(ex i0ioj & dj0kz)
(massi39[αł]hotmail.com)
Worked DXCCs:
Equipment
Max - I2IOJ Radio Shack
Following UNITS are included:
HF + 6mtr Base Station RTX Yaesu FT-2000
HF + Base Station RTX Yaesu FT-1000MP Mark V Field
HF + VHF + UHF Mobile RTX Yaesu FT-991
HF + VHF + UHF Mobile QRP RTX Yaesu FT-817 ND
VHF + UHF Mobile Handy RTX Icom IC-E90
HF Mobile RTX Yaesu FT-50
Station's ACCESSORIES:
Morse Keys:
Junker + Prijem Visilani + Iambic ETM - SQ + Other Several
Base Microphones
Kenwood MC-60
KenwoodMC-80
Icom SM-8
Astatic D-104
Astatic UG-8 +
Heil HM-10 (HC4 El.)
2 pieces Shure 450+
Din. Mic.TRAM +
Hand Microphones Shure SM-58
Revox M 3 500
Yaesu MH-31 A8J
MH-31 B8
ICOM IC-HM12 +
TURNER Ceramic 350
ICOM MC-43S
Trio-Kenwood MC-10
+ Several Home made Mike Sets
HeadSet TELEX Contester 62400 155
MFJ Tools Electronic CW Keyer MFJ-407B
Artificial Ground MFJ-931
Ant Analyz. MFJ-207
Ant Analyz. Rig-Expert AA-54
Antenna Tuners:
MFJ 949D
MFJ 945DE
LDG Z-11 Pro Autom Tuner
Magnum Eletronic MT 3000 Manual Antenna Tuner
SWR Meters:
Revex W500
Kenwood Sw-200
Lafayette RW40
Osker SWR-200
Swan SWR-1A
Loudspeakers:
Kenwood SP-31
ICOM SP-12
Kenwood SP-50B
Amplifier: HF + 6mtr Amplifier SPE Expert 1K-FA
And my ANTENNAS are:
For 2 mtr & 70 cm
5 element Yagi for 50 Mhz with small two band-yagi
For 6 mtr, 2 mtr and 70 cm:
Cassegrain for multiple TV satellites
two 5/8 Lambda Vert
Discone frm 25 to 1000 MHz
For 10 to 80 mtr:
Fritzel Dipole FD4,
Italian multiband Ground Plane Vertical Antenna (Nuova Eco Antenne),
Butternut HF6V
DIAMOND CP6
Malcott BB10V