Bio

Started in amateur radio in Argentina. First licensed during my teenage years, I made my way up from the Novice class to Intermediate with Morse Code (previous call-sign: LU2HOT ) 

Made contact with the MIR space station cosmonauts on the 2m band with an IC-32AT handheld and a home-brew 1/4 wave antenna with ground planes. Built my own Packet Radio modem based on a popular design of that time (AM7910 IC.)

After a hiatus of 26 years from the hobby, returned to amateur radio attracted by experimentation with SDR receivers, using a RaspberryPi, and an old laptop. Passed the exam for the Canadian license in November 2019 (Basic with Honors.) 

OPERATING EQUIPMENT:

• HF/VHF/UHF: Yaesu FT-991A (Base operations)

• HF/VHF/UHF: Yaesu FT-857D (Portable/Mobile operations/POTA) 

• HF: Yaesu FT-757GX and Kenwood TS-930SAT (Vintage operations)

• MFJ-939 automatic antenna tuner

• Jumbospot for digital voice

ANTENNAS:

Active:

• Cushcraft MN5B 3 elements Yagi for 20, 17, 15, 12, and 10m bands

• DX-B Alpha Delta Sloper for 160, 80, 40, and 30m bands

• G5RV

• 6m 3el Yagi

• 2m/70cm Yagi

• 2m/70cm vertical dipole to work the local repeaters.

Inactive:

• Inverted "L" End-fed random length wire with 9:1 unun for 80m to 10m coverage.

• Delta Loop for 20m - vertically polarized.

• Dipole for 6m - built of aluminium parts of a crutch set.

• Tape Meter Yagi-Uda to work satellites in 70cm and 2m bands.

HTs:

• 2m/70cm: Icom IC-32AT (This was my first radio and I still have it)

• 2m/70cm: Baofeng UV-5R

• 2m/70cm/DMR: Baofeng DM-1801 with replaced OpenGD77 firmware

RADIO MEMBERSHIPS:

• YRARC - York Region Amateur Radio Club - Board of Directors, Treasurer (2021/2022)

• RAC - Radio Amateurs of Canada