About HA5AO
There is a huge amount of ham radio station websites. This one is a simple, further addition. By creating this site, my aim was just to share some basic information about me, my station and my activities, not more.
My name is Istvan Gaspar, operator name is Pista. I was born in 1951. Licenced ham since 1976. Back in those times, I was active from the HA5KHT club station. I got HA7VT, my first callsing, in 1976, then HA5AO in 1984. After 14 years of silence I was back to the bands in 2004. I am active on the HF bands, mainly on CW. I am registered to LotW, however I prefer the "old fashion" paper QSL cards.
Other callsigns: T88CI, 7P8AO, YJ0HA, C21HA,
Membership
HA5HRK Háros Rádió Klub
A-1 Operator Club
Internatinal DX Association (INDEXA)
My schack (2006)
Awards
- 8 Bands DXCC
- DXCC CW
- DXCC SSB
- DXCC RTTY
- DXCC Challenge
- IOTA
HA5AO Station setup
- Yaesu FTDX 9000D transceiver
- Yaesu Quadra VL-1000 linear amplifier
-
ICOM IC-756-PRO II transceiver
- ACOM 1000 Linear Amplifier
- SteppIR 3 elemn, 40-6 meters, 16 m up
- SteppIR BigIR vertical for 80-10 m bands
- microKEYER II interface
- MA160V vertical for 160 m
- Palstar DT1500DT ant. tuner
- Heil Pro-Set Plus headset
- Bencher Mercury Paddle (Serial #: 1139)
- TRX-Manager v.4. for station automation
- WIN-Test and N1MM for contesting
Field operation setup
- Elecraft K3 100 W
- Elecraft KPA-500 500 W
- ICOM IC-7000
- Tokyo Hy-Power HL-1.1-KFX 600 W solid state PA
- Spiderbeam, 5 bands, (20 - 10 m) on 10 m telescopic Alu pole
- Wire Verticals (18 m), 160 - 10 m + SGC 235 automatic antenna coupler
- SteppIR BigIR vertical for 80 - 10 m bands
- Heil Pro-Set with HC4 mic element
