Who I am: Guido, IZ6CLV
Who I am: Guido, radio amateur IZ6CLV from Cellino Attanasio, in the province of Teramo, Italy. More than forty years of radio, from 1980s CB to FT8, and RadioMeteo to share tools and guides with people who share the same passion.
The station at a glance
- Callsign
- IZ6CLV
- QTH
- Cellino Attanasio (TE), Abruzzo, Italy — 415 m a.s.l.
- Locator
- JN62WO
- Licensed since
- 1993
- Modes
- SSB, CW, FT8, FT4
- Log and confirmations
- Log4OM, LoTW
Who I am: the journey from CB to IZ6CLV
- 1980s
CB radio
From a childhood walkie-talkie to 27 MHz CB with the President Lincoln: the first SSB contact with a French radio amateur is when radio became a vocation.
- 1993
IW6OWU
The amateur radio licence and the first real station: ICOM IC-706, a 3-element ECO beam for HF and a 13-element KLM for VHF/UHF on a 6-metre tower with rotator.
- Rome
IW0EOD
The move to Rome and a district 0 callsign: operating in a city, with noise and little room for antennas, is a constant school.
- 2003
IZ6CLV
The full licence with the practical Morse (CW) exam and the final callsign IZ6CLV, which I still use today from Cellino Attanasio.
Today’s station
Transceiver
Yaesu FT-DX10, a 100 W hybrid SDR with DSP filters and a real-time spectrum display.
Antennas
Prosistel PST-1524TV “Cornuta”, a trapped dipole for 10, 15, 20 and 40 m, and a multiband HF vertical for the WARC bands (30, 17 and 12 m).
Digital modes and software
FT8 and FT4 with WSJT-X, logging with Log4OM and confirmations via LoTW.
Why RadioMeteo
RadioMeteo collects the tools and guides I use in the shack, made for radio amateurs and listeners: all free, with the official sources listed on every page.
Contact and full story
My public profile with QSL information is on QRZ.com. The full story, from the first walkie-talkie to today, is in the dedicated article.
IZ6CLV on QRZ.com ↗ Read my story →
73 de IZ6CLV — Guido