Welcome to the website of PA5MX!

This is my station as from february 2015:

Icom IC-765

Yaesu FT-980

Yaesu FT-480R

A.T. Vectronics HFT-1500

Antenna LW 25m

This is my station:

JRC JST-125

Yaesu FT-980

Yaesu FT-480R

A.T. Vectronics HFT-1500

Antenna LW 25m

My station as it was in 2003:

Drake TR-7 line

Heathkit SB-101

Receiver Collins 651S-1

Receiver RFT EKD-315

Receiver IRME RXU-70

Collins receiver 651S-1

Italian ship's receiver IRME RXU-70

RFT receiver EKD-315

Lifeboat emergency transceiver Skanti Marinetta

Modification of the Marinetta Skanti into a desktop equipment powered from an external 24VDC P.S.

(Carried out on April 2012.)

But in case of  a power failure, the hand generator is still available!

NEC CQ-110E - I have had this transceiver for a while. It was not working when I bought it. I got it working and could realign it quite well on 40, 80 and 160 meters but not on the higher bands. I made quite a lot of qso's on 40 m. Afterwards I sold it again.

Marconi Atalanta Receiver.

I bought it a few weeks ago on internet but it was a real ruin, incredibly dirty and rusty. I have dismantled completely the front panel to clean it properly. The knob of the bandspread was not original and had a brownish color. I replaced it with another one, also not original, but that looks and works very well. The cabinet has had a new full paint spray almost in its original color.  Now it is completely restored esthetically and, after replacing two capacitors and the AF potentiometer, the performance is also very satisfactory. This was the receiver I had on board of my first ship S/S Calypso/5MIK, but if I remember well, I had it also on three other vessels. The bandspread of the Atalanta covers all the HF maritime bands therefore it is very easy and fast to search on them. But very sadly these bands are now almost totally dead except for a few Sitor stations as TAH, SVO, XSQ and some Clover stations of the Global Link Network as DAO, HEB, WLO etc.

(Added december 2013)

This is my collection of telegraph keys

Keys
Keys