Me, my FT290 and my Moxon Rectangle in JN35ME; 07/2003

Welcome to the virtual home of
Paolo Cravero (IK1ZYW)
spazioinwind.libero.it/ik1zyw
www.paolocravero.tk

Quick link: 28.322 MHz QRPp QRSS3 beacon
Quick link: Come ricevere i modi lenti e procedura di allineamento dell'RX
Coming soon: DRM converter for ICOM radios (9 MHz IF)

First of all: this site requires a QRP browser! :-)

Briefly, who am I?
I am a Telecommunications Engineer from Torino, Italy. I was born in 1974. I like life, travelling, linux, radio-amateur, electronics, and love my wife. In this website I try to collect and share my experiences. If you need to contact me, please decode and write to the following address: ik1zyw at yahoo! dottie com.

The Paper Clip Section (HAM radio uses of paper clips)

Narrowband modes (HAM radio applications)

Propagation check on 40m, November 2004. Squarewave, 100mW into 2.8m resonant antenna.

Parallel transmission I/DL on 40m, April 2005. Squarewave, 100mW into 2.8m resonant antenna.

28.32193 MHz beacon, a QRPp QRSS3 beacon experiment on 10m (on another server)

Hardware (Mainly related to HAM radio)

RX, TX & RTX
455 kHz BFO/Oscillator with ceramic filter (final) 10m to 17m transverter (work in progress) 10m QRPp CW TX (Feb.2003 page under construction) mono-frequency 30m CW QRPp TX (30m adaptation of 10m version) 7 MHz CW QRPp beacon transmitter (final, added on 2005/02/26) 14 MHz CW QRPp RTX (work in progress) FM add-on for ICOM IC-728 (RX only), a subset of ICOM's UI-7 optional interface (just an idea)
RF Circuits
Simple QRP HF Dummy Load and RF Voltage Probe
Other Circuits
Voltage regulator with LP2951 for non-standard values (final, added on 2005/04/16) Telephone line monitor (Sep.2002 final)
Antenna
Experimenting with a Moxon Rectangle 2-element beam. Vertical antenna for stationary-mobile HF operation My balcony "Cedevita-20" antenna, that then turned into a multiband setup (20, 30 and 40m). My antenna setup in Zagreb, 9A. RF analysis of surplus resistors from old switching power supply (Feb.2003 partially in Italian) With the precious help of IK1QLD Angelo
Other docs
Homebrew IAMBIC key, version 0.1beta (final). Simple ICOM IC-706MKiiG microphone cable for computer VOX operation (final, added on 2005/02/26). Reach and change your IC-728 panel lamp (final) Troubleshooting a troublesome QTH: receiving HF in a RF polluted environment (4-Nov-2001 final) What can you rescue from (broken) electronic equipment? Featured so far: PC monitor, VCR, CD-ROM drive, laptop. A list of possible HAM applications of my XTALs and canned oscillators. Use my xtalfind program (below) to explore what your unused XTALs can do for your RF activities!

Software

Televideo RAI Ultim'ora Retriever: get the news on your local disk here!
(Requires PERL and lynx, so it is likely to work on unix/linux only)
Have a XTAL? Want to find out if it can be useful on HAM bands? Check it out! (ver. 1.2)
C source code (should compile on any OS), executable for Pentium-class linux included
Patch to Simon Baldwin's unixcw, to redirect the sound from the PC speaker to the soundcard.
June 2002 update: Simon has released a version of his unixcw that uses the soundcard. This patch is therefore outdated and unmaintained.
CQ ring tone for Nokia GSM phones.
CQ ring tone for Alcatel OT512 GSM phones.
HAM TCP-IPing with Baycom and DOS (1998)

Travel

If you have travelled at least once in your life, probably you forgot something important at home. As nobody is perfect I've tried to make a ready-to-print list (for boys and girls) of what a traveller should always need. At least I use it :)

If you're coming to Italy you might like to have some Italy travel tips

Who travels a lot has some background knowledge learnt travel by travel. It goes from packing tips to how to take pictures: mine is here.

Other Useful Stuff

Here's a collection of things I know that might be of any use for the World Community.

(in Italian) Riconoscimento Laurea Croazia-Italia: memoria delle varie procedure da seguire per presentare la domanda di riconoscimento di una laurea Croata in Italia, presso l'Ambasciata Italiana a Zagabria. (Aug.2002)
holiday proposal in Croatia (9A / EU-136)

Work

Professional services I can offer. Please contact me via email for more information.

I am able to offer translation services for the following languages: Italian>Croatian, English>Croatian, Croatian>English. Besides general-purpose texts, my (our) field of expertise covers Information Technology and Pharmaceutics.
Planning, development and deployment of anti-spam/anti-virus solutions for email communication, both server-side and client-side, using open source software (you pay for hardware and consultancy time)

Page created by Paolo Cravero - Oct.2001 - Last updated Jul.2005

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Welcome to the virtual home of Paolo Cravero (IK1ZYW) spazioinwind.libero.it/ik1zyw www.paolocravero.tk

Quick link: 28.322 MHz QRPp QRSS3 beacon Quick link: Come ricevere i modi lenti e procedura di allineamento dell'RX Coming soon: DRM converter for ICOM radios (9 MHz IF)

The Paper Clip Section (HAM radio uses of paper clips)

Narrowband modes (HAM radio applications)

Hardware (Mainly related to HAM radio)

Software

Travel

Other Useful Stuff

Work

Welcome to the virtual home of
Paolo Cravero (IK1ZYW)
spazioinwind.libero.it/ik1zyw
www.paolocravero.tk

Quick link: 28.322 MHz QRPp QRSS3 beacon
Quick link: Come ricevere i modi lenti e procedura di allineamento dell'RX
Coming soon: DRM converter for ICOM radios (9 MHz IF)