Team Pantelleria

K7FL, ZS6NW, IT9WPO, IT9BLB, WA7EQW, OK1FUA (OL5Y), I8QLS
IN3QBR, IT9VDQ, IT9TQH, KR7X, I8CZW(W1NA)

BAND	QSO	QSO PTS	PTS/QSO	ZONES	COUNTRIES	TOTAL
160	647	1922	2.97	10	69
80	1081	3222	2.98	20	87
40	1640	4893	2.98	33	116
20	2826	8433	2.98	40	152
15	2531	7538	2.98	36	136
10	2399	7177	2.96	36	162
TOTALS	11,124	33,119	2.98	175	722	29,707,743

The Pantelleria Multi/Multi Contest team was first founded by K7FL Dennis, WA7EQW Mark and IT9WPO Marco. Soon joined the group the technical champs ZS6NW Jan and IT9BLB Joe. The group grow up with the other fine operators from 4 countries and after one year of preparation the first effort (1998 CQWWDX SSB) was a success obtaining the 4th place world for M/M and 1st continental place M/M (declared scores).

IH9 Pantelleria Island Africa Zone 33
WWLOCATOR JM56XT long. 11°56'35" E lat. 36°49'46"N
The island is located in the Sicily's Channel, between Sicily IT9 and Tunisia 3V8. The overall surface area is 83 Km sq with 51.5 Km of perimeter and about 7,500 inhabitants. Pantelleria is 102 km away from Trapani's harbor (Sicily) and 84 Km away from 3V8-land's coast.
The assigned HAM-prefix is "IH9" and, together with Lampedusa's islands group "IG9", it's a separate multiplier for the CQ's contests.
CLICK HERE IF YOU WANT TO SEE A VERY DETAILED MAP

Dennis Ashworth, K7FL -Team Leader

Dennis is 47 years old resides near Portland Oregon with his wife (Vivian) and two children (April 21, Justin 20).. Licensed in 1965, Dennis has held call-signs WA7EQE, WB5AAJ, VK5EQE, and K7FL/R3D, R1A, KP4, KP2, ZL, KH6, VE, OZ, OH2. He is active in many contests and prefers single operator S & P activities. He has earned 5BDXCC, 5BWAS and 188/200 5BWAZ, all with wire antennas. He station is currently an Omni VI Plus transceiver and SB220 amplifier. Professionally, Dennis is a Director of Quality for a Fortune 500 company and has recently completed a Masters degree in Business Administration.

Marco Magnano IT9WPO,Team Doctor-Internal Communications Czar,

Marco is 38 years old, resident in Catania, Sicily, married to Chiara, no kids.
Licensed in 1975. Active in international contests during the eighties, often in multioperator. Many years in QRT, now again On the Air,
DXCC 220 countries, WPX, WAZ, on the way to 5Bands awards.
Professionally Marco is a doctor, vice chairman of the Radiology department of a large hospital and owner of two private diagnostic centers.
He is the author of this web page-

Jan is 39, and an electronic engineer. Married to Ilze. Lives in
Phoenix, AZ.
We have one daughter, Inge, 3. CQWW (CW & RTTY) awards. WRTC 96.
Favourite modes are CW and RTTY.

IT9BLB Joe LaParola Logistics Czar - Czar of Pantelleria - External Communications Czar
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8 years old, lives in Palermo, Sicily, married to Maura (IW9BO) has two children (Eleonora 8 and Anna 2). Home-brewer, BCL and SWL since 1972, Giuseppe was licensed in 1979 as IW9AJZ and started a long period of hard V-U-SHF activity having a lot of experience in the most specialized ways: Meteor Scatter, Moonbounce, duct propagation on 10GHz contacts etc. and organized the first "big V-U-SHF contest team" ever in Sicily, winning all the most important contest of the italian calendar. In 1982 the first activity from IH9 Isl. leading a multioperator team active from 80 meters to 3 cm with the call IH9ONU . In 1984 received the IT9BLB call and continued the contest experience on HF too, obtaining at today several top results at world and EU level in the most important contests; he's still owner of the WPX All-time EU Record on 20 meters S.O.S.B. QRO won in the 1994's PHONE edition .
owner of several calls: IT84BLB, IO9BLB, I9BLB, IQ9W, IB9S, IT9S, IU9S, KF6FBCand operated IP9IARU in 1982 and IG9W (1990's Lampedusa Isl. expedition), from Malta with 9H3DC call and team leader of "ITALY2" Team in San Francisco's 1996 WRTC using K6F
He is active in many SSB contests, liking CW too, and prefers single operator and hard pile-up. 313wkd/299cfmd DXCC countries, president of the Palermo's club of A.R.I. and sysop of the local packetcluster node IT9BLB-6 Professionally, Joe is employed at the Sicily's Department of Tourism.

IT9VDQ, another Giuseppe or "Joe" is 42, he's married to Fiorella and has a doughter Giulia 8 years old. He lives in Palermo and works for

an american chemical company the Pfizer International.
Ham radio since 1973 with call IW9AFS, became IT9VDQ in 1977 and actually is the Sicilian VHF Manager and vice president of Sicilian amateur group of A.R.I.
He is very active in VHF, mostly in Meteor Scatter, with 52 DXCC countries worked; in HF he needs only A5, T31, P5, JD1 Minami T. in CW and has 293 DXCC confirmed countries in SSB.
Very active in main CW contests, Giuseppe was 1th EU/3rd World the '91CQWW-CW on S.O.S.B.10mt. as IT9A.
Other calls:IT84VDQ,I90VDQ,IU9V,IT9A,IE9/IT9VDQ,IH9/IT9VDQ,9H3FI and KF6FDB (WRTC '96 session too). In the WRTC'96 operated K6F with IT9BLB.
Unfortunately in October Pfizer International will launch the VIAGRA(tm) in Italy (does any of the operators needs some?), and Giuseppe will have many problems in taking days off but he will try all possible ways to be with the team .

WA7EQW Mark Ward

Mark is 46 years old and has been licensed since age 13. Dennis, K7FL (then WA7EQE) was one of his very first contacts as a Novice. Mark lives near Portland with Jill and no harmonics are planned. He was actively involved in DX contesting in the late 70’s and early 80’s. Mark has 241 countries on SSB, mostly with 100 watts and a tri-bander only 10 meters high. He got his PhD in 1980 and is employed by the Veterans Administration as a Clinical Psychologist.

MARTIN HUML OK1FUA/OL5Y

Martin is 30 years old, resident in Praha, Czech Republic, maried to Adela, two children (George 2, Hana 6). He has elektrotechnical acquirement.
Licensed in 84 as OL1BLN (160m and VHF only). Active entirely in contests (OL1BLN/P, OK1FUA/P, OK5TOP, OL1A, OL2M, 4U0ITU, now OL5Y). He has worked over 110 thousands QSOs. One of founders Czech Contest Club. He heads Contesting column in czech HAM radio magazine (AMA Magazin). In contests he has many first places in OK and several good places in EU. He prefers SO,CW and SSB. He designes and produces various help-devices for operating in contests.
Professionally, Martin is part-owner and director of four small companies - education, training and personnel agency, software maker, computer services and advertising agency.

HANK LONBERG KR7X

am 52 years old and live in Beaverton, Oregon near Portland.Married to Karen, two sons; Sam, a chemistry major at the University of Oregon and Bret, a junior at Beaverton High School.
Ham for 4 years and 3 years as an Extra class operator. I actively pursue DX and love to contest. I have operated in every CQWW since I have been licensed and work both SSB and CW. I have almost reached my DXCC with 100 watts and hidden wire antennas in my house's attic. I have operatated CQWW in M/S efforts at K9JF/7's station and in a M/M effort at K7FR's station.I am a project manager for a consulting engineering firm and we engineer and design heavy industrial plants. I have a bachelors degree in Civil Engineering and a masters degree in Business Administration. I am a licensed professional structural engineer in 12 states and Canadian provences. I also engineer and design amateur radio tower installations in my spare time.

PASQUALE (PAT) SPERANZA I8QLS Pat is 37 years old, resident in Naples, married to Angela, has one

child(Marco,5) and another expected towards the end of november.Licensed in 1978, at age of 17, he is home-brewer especially of HF beams and enjoys dxing and contesting if there is something new to test.HF activity : he has 325 countries (only phone) and don't need QSL or awards; activated many italian islands ; the best memory was a solitaryDX expedition in the Republic of Benin (Africa TY2LS, 1991, 8000 qso).Sysop of the local DX packet cluster (I8CZW-6).Last contest activity : (CQWW-phone) 1° world assisted 20 mt '96 (all timerecord) , 5° world assisted all bands '95 , 3° world assisted all bands '94 ,1° EU 10 mt '93 , ARI int. contest 1° '94 , EU sprint 1° '95 , ARRL 2° world assisted '95.Professionaly : Pat is an electronic engineer ,specialized in telecom. ; at present he is employed in a big company of electrified transportations.Salient points : he is a nosmoker, plays tennis and soccer, and ... climbs towers !

The 4 squares array for 40 meters
You can't even imagine what the hell is doing a linear amplifier in the restroom!
 As you can
                                          see the team didn't take care only of contesting!

The TITANEX 160 meters vertical was erected on Friday night.The day after we realized it was everything but straight.

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