I'm LW1DSE Osvaldo from Buenos Aires!

[LW1DSE]

Hello everyone here.
My name is Osvaldo, a spanish from Oswald. My call is LW1DSE from september 1987.

I'm Electronic Engineer from 2001. Actualy unemployed. I have a FT7800 for fone, mainly my QAP is 146970 -600, a repeater located at Quilmes City. Also an FT2400 I used for packet, but some months ago my HomeBBS Horacio LU7DQP has gone. No other BBS close to me, so silence in digis. A FT767 HF rig with very little use, led lightning is very harmfull here. All from Yaesu.

My 4 aerials are all home made. Futurely I may post pics if wanted/allowed.

12V rigs get power from solar energy, 27 cells 10W each gives power for them, the refrigerator, part of lightning and a vintage Becker Brescia AM receiver. I don't send energy to grid nor I'll do. The voltage regulator for rhe battery is self designed.

I live in a town called Barrio Garay, in Buenos Aires province, GF05tg is my location.

I write English of my own, no translators, so my apologies if it is not too good. I learn it when young, actually 56.

I'm specially interested in vacuum tubes, their habbits and to play some time wirh them.

Many thanks in advance for leave me be a member.

Kind regards.

 

[Ham4CW]

Greetings Osvaldo!
As soon as I saw that your avatar was a pentode I thought, "this guy likes his tubes!"

I used to build many single tube transmitters and lots of regenerative receivers when I was younger. My father liked to repair TV sets, and so there were always many parts laying around for me to use in my projects. I actually managed to make a tube explode once. I had built a small transmitter and I needed to change one of the capacitors to change the tuning range.

I did not turn off the power though (I thought it would be OK), but I accidentally shorted the high voltage positive supply to the grid on the tube! There was a great big bang, and a really bright flash of light! I could not see anything for about fifteen minutes. Once my eyes started working again I found that the tube has disappeared, only the glass base with the pins were still there! So now I ALWAYS turn off the power.

OK about the solar power. I use solar power here in my workshop. It is fine in the summer months, but during the winter it can take many days to recharge the batteries.

Your English is excellent! I wish I was so good at speaking Spanish. The Spanish I learned at school was not very good at all. We were taught phrases like "the clock is in the bag" and "there is a monkey up the tree". So far I have never found a use for these phrases!

Yes, you can post pictures of your antennas or anything else really. I can't remember what the limit is for the file size but if you find that your pictures are too large then I could change the size allowed (so long as it is not too crazy of course).

73, Mark...

 

[G5AMR]

Hello everyone here.
My name is Osvaldo, a spanish from Oswald. My call is LW1DSE from september 1987.

I'm Electronic Engineer from 2001. Actualy unemployed. I have a FT7800 for fone, mainly my QAP is 146970 -600, a repeater located at Quilmes City. Also an FT2400 I used for packet, but some months ago my HomeBBS Horacio LU7DQP has gone. No other BBS close to me, so silence in digis. A FT767 HF rig with very little use, led lightning is very harmfull here. All from Yaesu.

My 4 aerials are all home made. Futurely I may post pics if wanted/allowed.

12V rigs get power from solar energy, 27 cells 10W each gives power for them, the refrigerator, part of lightning and a vintage Becker Brescia AM receiver. I don't send energy to grid nor I'll do. The voltage regulator for rhe battery is self designed.

I live in a town called Barrio Garay, in Buenos Aires province, GF05tg is my location.

I write English of my own, no translators, so my apologies if it is not too good. I learn it when young, actually 56.

I'm specially interested in vacuum tubes, their habbits and to play some time wirh them.

Many thanks in advance for leave me be a member.

Kind regards.

Bevenido Osvaldo esto nombre es popular tambien en Italia soy mui felice es un imenso placer que etes aqui .mas menos entiedo castajano y lunfardo pero no perfectamente Hablo Italiano con fluidez Soy Britanico de nacimiento en cuanto al idioma aqui en la escuela nos ensenan principalmente frances .Your English is Excellent Osvaldo I hope we can be friends I am also new here and also glad to be a new member and grateful to be so
kindest regards Adrian G5AMR

 

[LW1DSE]

OK. Many thanks to both.

@Mark: My avatar is a modified 6JN6 compactron tube, like a 6DQ6 but plate wired to socket. I made a "quasicomplenterary" audio amplifier (OTL formerly) all with compactron tubes, and an toro autotransformer to match outpur impedance. It gave about 10W with + and - 275V, but it is still an uncompleted project. Those days of unemployed, I can't spent money in it. Also an all tube FM receiver was under development, unfinished too for the same reason.

I have lots of finished and un_ projects. Possibly I shall post some here.

I would want if I can make reference to posts in other forums.

@Adrian: I have the EC passport, I got the italian nationality and perhaps I migrate from Argentina some time soon. My grandfathers (from dad arm of the tree) were from Calabria, my last name is Zappacosta. Thanks of it I could got the passport.

A very very warm wheather nowadays here. Pufff.

 

[G5AMR]

Bene Osvaldo sono proprio content che hai potuto prendere la doppia cittadinanza con Italia e magari potresti stabilire in Italia

It must surely be summertime over in Buenos Aires I have only ever seen photos and watched a few documentaries but I used to work with some guys from Cordoba and when I am working I often encounter people from your country and it also pleases me to help them My favorite argentine festival is la fiesta del amigo
pleased to meet you

 

[LW1DSE]

I'm about 1000Km from Córdoba, to the south east. I live in a town called Barrio Garay, located in the area of Almirante Brown, Buenos Aires, about an hour from CABA (the politic centre of Argentina).

 

[G5AMR]

so thats the same distance as Calabria from here it would probably take two days to reach there driving but here 160KM is considered far given the dense population of our small group of Islands .The best I can say about here is the countryside is beautiful there are no real mountains as such but lakes and wonderful coastline. sea bathing means cold water but I think that would be the same in Argentina due to the cold waters of the South Atlantic another good feature is that there are no paid motorways apart from a small section around Birmingham . Its possible to get everywhere fast by car in a matter of hours.
Please visit my page on QRZ kindest regards Adrian

 

[LW1DSE]

I started the QRZ.COM settings, but I abandoned it. I feel unpleasant that place.

I watched the Vera Stanhope episodes. I love those small houses with only trees and plants rounding them, and the closest neigbour, 1km far away.

Certainly, I posted the link for the forum at the whatsapp status. +54-911-3016-4860.