Biography

Hello, thank you for visiting my page.

Many years ago when I was a child, my parents gave me a toy to learn Morse code and this memory remained alive in the mind. I'm amateur radio since 1984 and I like to operate mainly in CW mode. In the first years of amateur radio activity in radiotelegraphy, I also used the Amsat Oscar 10 satellite (mode B). The tracking of the satellite in real time was calculated with the InstantTrack dos program (by N6NKF). Recently I am also interested in the digital mode designed for making reliable, confirmed QSOs under extreme weak-signal conditions. Furthermore I'm active in ARDF, acronym of Amateur Radio Direction Finding.

73, Giuseppe IKØDWJ

Worked DXCCs:

Equipment

Transceivers:
* Kenwood TS-590 (HF/50MHz).

Linear Amplifier:
* No Power Amplifier, I do not like using powers above 100 W.

Antennas:
* Homebuilt skywire delta loop multiband from 80 to 6 meters, with ladder line 450 Ω and balun Guanella 4:1 dual core;
* Homebuilt EFHWA for 60 meters with L-tuner, also adapted as a random for 160 meters.

Radio accessories:
* Headphones Kenwood HS-5;
* Paddle Sheunemann Morse Dirigent;
* DC Power Supply Microset PS50;
* SWR & Power Meter REVEX W570;

Operating system:
* Debian Linux, release active "testing" distribution.

Ham radio software utilized:
* CQRLOG, program for logging;
* JTDX (program for data).

Favorite two-way:
* CW main activity. Member of the Italian Telegraphy Club: ITC #034-2021 previously #565.