In the seventies/eighties, I have been active from JN65hq, a small town in the Venetian countryside, where I got my best results in VHF with a TC20, a 20 elements Yagi antenna made by I2ODI.
In the years 1996 through 2010, my station was located in JN55wj (center of Padova), a quite poor site for VHF DX activity, because of heavy radio noise coming from many urban sources, including a lot of computers and servers in offices and laboratories of the University campus. In this position I operated with a 17 elements F9FT Yagi antenna, but my take off from there was acceptable only into directions from 20 to 180 degrees.
At the end of 2011 I moved my station to the outskirts of Padova in JN55vk, where I installed a LLY (Log-Loop-Yagi) antenna by I3DLI. I am still setting up my new station, but my first feeling about the new conditions is positive.

Contest maps

Here are some maps of my contest activity (EDI visualizer by UT4UKW):

Year 2016

July 2016.

Year 2015

• March 2015.
• May 2015.
• July 2015.
• September 2015.
• November 2015.

Year 2014

• March 2014
• May 2014
• July 2014
• September 2014
• November 2014

Year 2013

• May 2013
• July 2013
• September 2013
• November 2013

My logbook

Since I am blind, I have problems in managing paper QSL cards.
In order to overcome this issue, I have set up an experimental on-line version of my station logbook, with the possibility of displaying a confirmation sheet for each entry. I could recover my QSO entries back to 1978. Any remark to improve this function will be highly appreciated. Thank you.

I apologise with allOMs who did not receive my QSO confirmation and hope this attempt will offer a reasonable replacement for QSL card.

My VHF station

• transceiver ICOM IC-746, 100 W;
• receiver Drake R 4C with converter and preamplifier (1 dB NF);
• 19 elements LLY (Log-Loop-Yagi) antenna by I3DLI;
• solid-state LD-MOS Beko power amplifier HLV-1000;
• DTR by DK7KF to decode high speed CW;

DX sounds

This is a sample of the recording I made during my random EME contact with K1WHS, FN43mj, in September 4, 1983 from JN65hq, with a single 20 elements long Yagi and 300 W power. On that Sunday afternoon, at the end of international September contest, my antenna was randomly pointed to the moon at its set position (at that moment, I was not aware of this circumstance). I heared a weak but very clear CQ de K1WHS in CW, then I answered and immediately got a 549 OOO report> and completed the QSO in few minutes.

Here you can listen to more DX sounds, including:

• Aurora opening of July 25, 1981.
• Aurora opening of March 31, 2001.
• Leonids meteor shower, November 19, 2002.

Any MS schedule proposals?

Either fill in the on-line form or send me an E-mail message.
To avoid TVI problems, I prefer early morning time.

Hamradio for blind people

This section (in Italian) is designed to present various contributions, due to different authors, all relating to devices, appliances, information that might be useful for blind amateur radio people, as part of their hamradio interests.

Questa pagina (in italiano) è dedicata a contributi di vari autori, tutti riguardanti accorgimenti, apparecchi, informazioni che potrebbero essere utili ai radioamatori non vedenti nell'ambito dell'esercizio dell'attività di radioamatore.

My pieces of software

In the good old times of MS-DOS, I made some pieces of freely usable software. You can see:

• Ham-radio software.
• Utility programs, particularly designed to be used on personal computers equipped with speech or braille devices. The package DOC can be configured to be used in any language; the remaining ones are in Italian.