| I
was born in September 1991. Since I was young I was much interested in
Ham Radio and, on February 2008, at 16 years old, I got my Italian ham
radio license and I've been assigned the callsign: IZ3NVR.
I immediately developed an interest on CW that is currently my
favourite mode. Time to time I train with MorseRunner, QRQ and CWFreak
to improve my speed and copying skills. In November 2011 I got my US
General license too with the call: KD2BGM and I hope to upgrade soon
to Extra class. My main interest in the hobby are HF contests and low power communications as well as homebrewing simple equipment. I am much interested in QRP contesting where I can run SO2R (Single Operator 2 Radios) without bothering too much to apply band pass filters to prevent RF issues at the second receiver. I initially played SO2R in 2010 in IOTA contest and really loved it. Since that moment I use very often such a technique to maximize my scores. I achieved some very nice contesting results, from the fine placements nationally to the world top scores in some lucky weekend. Each specific event should deserve a word but I am especially proud of having won CQWW CW 2011 in the M/M Xtreme category. QRP gives lots of satisfaction, especially in the world top contests when it is easier to work some very rare DXCC entity. I received the QRP DXCC Award in April 2012 and my count is always growing also thanks to lots of entries in the QRP categories during contests. I like to say that I am "Whispering in the crowd" during such events :) . Lately I am deeply involved in QRP and QRPp operations and homebrewing. I run an online QRSS Grabber on 30m that runs under Linux and the receiver is a nice direct conversion RX kindly sent me by Tomas, OK4BX and his dad, OK2BX. |
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