Biography

My passion was born with Eng. Giuseppe Todatello (IZ0GKO). When I was a 12 year old boy (in 1972), I remember that on Sunday mornings I went to Eng. Giuseppe's house to listen to the QSOs he made with his self-built transmitter with thermionic valves. At that time everything seemed like a miracle. Eng. Giuseppe helped me build my first two-transistor FM transmitter and my first AM receiver with 1 thermionic valve.
I studied the basics of electronics with the Radio Elettra School of Turin. Later, with the help of my dear friend Francesco Pascuzzi IZ8AXJ, I continued my passion for QSOs and in 1997 I got my license as a radio amateur.
With the Cushcraft ATV5 antenna I made more than 2000 QSOs in CW with all the continents of the world. Another great satisfaction I had with a copper loop antenna tuned with a stepper motor from 14 to 28 MHz. These two antennas were broken by a hurricane.

My equipment:

Rig is an Icom 737
Antenna is a 3 band vertical 20/15/10 mt
Fishing Rod Antenna 40mt shortened
Contel SP-1 DSP built by Giancarlo Ancora (IK8LGL)
"Arduino" microcontroller interconnected to a PC that assists me in CW. 

I thank everyone who connected me. 73 Tony. Ciao.

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