Z32AF

 

Z39Z - Venci Ristov

Home Calls from ex: SFR Yugoslavia and Republic of Macedonia: YZ5GRV, YZ5AA, Z32AF, Z3100V

The callsigns i worked from ex Yugoslavia, Macedonia and abroad: YU5FAD, YT5FAD, YT5G, YT6A, YT6T, 4N5FAD, 4N5M, 4O/Z39Z, 4O3A, 4O3T, 4O6A, 4O6DX, Z3A, Z 3100 V, Z 320 Z, Z 340 FAD, Z 350 FAD, Z37FAD, Z37Z, Z39A, Z30A, Z30Z

Member of the radio club Nicola Tesla from Gevgelija since 1979.

Member of international contest club "SKY Contest Club" since 2000

Activities on HF

DXCC
Worked 329
Confirmed 302

Worked 8BDXCC, 8BWAZ, 8BWAS etc.

HF Contest

Several times in TOP 5 and TOP 10 in the biggest ham radio contest in SOSB competition.

In other contests i was first several times in Europe and about 20 times i was between first 10 in europe and world.

World Record

In 2004 i made world record in second most important ham radio competition CQ WW WPX CW on 3.5 Mhz assisted.
Record lasted until 2012.

I was part of the international team in 2006 who made world record in number of qso's on 14 MHz as 4O3T.
We made more than 40.000 contacts and nobody came even close to make better result.

European Record

As part of the multinational team in 2006 we made european record in number of qso's on all frequencies.
15 years later this result is still the best.

HST - High Speed Telegraphy

I took several TOP 3 places on state and army competitions.

Marketing and PR

2002-2007 editor at the radio amateur portal - contesting.info

2002-2015 member of PR team at the ARRL (American Radio Relay League) - 180.000 members

2008-2010 Markering & PR manager at radio amateur society of Macedonia

2010 - I created, set up and edited the website of the Amateur Radio Association of Macedonia Z37RSM

2015 - I was part of very small team who organised the 12-th "IARU World HST Championship" in Ohrid, Republic of Macedonia

2017 - I was part of very small team who organised the 10th "Cup of Europe" and 5th "Balkan HST Championship"

VHF Activities - 144 MHz
YU5FAD

First activities were in the most popular ex Yugoslavia contest Tesla Memorijal in july 1982.

 YU7BCD MS

We worked from good location which is 1700 meters above the sea level about 40 km away from my city.

At that time we had just FT 221 and about 10 watts in 11 el. yagi antenna.

 

  YT5G

 

The most interesting place for work in contest for me was the location which is about 250 km away from Gevgelija and the mountain hill is about 2.600 meters high.

From that place we made Macedonian record in number of qso's and the final result in 1990.
The working equipment was quite good for that time: Kenwood TS711 E, TS-811E, home made amplifier with 400 W output and 44 el. antenna sistem
.

YT5G MS

In 1987 i started to work on 144 MHz through meteor scater (MS) as YT5G and I made many qso's, some of them were even on SSB.
At that time we used about 400 W and 44 el. YU0B antenna, Uher 4 speed audio recorder and memory key with 1.200 wpm.

I had some lucky days to catch E-Sporadic several times but the most memorible was the first one in 1986 which was extremely long with very strong signals from all over Europe.

 

4O3T

In 2006 was my first 144 DX-Pedition in Montenegro from famous 4O3A location. With Anton ON6NL we made first meteor scatter contacts in new DXCC.
Anton made first EME qso with W5UN and some more with other stations.

More about this expedition HERE

 

 

studio radio gevgelija

My first full time job was in the biggest casino in ex: Yugoslavia and one in the biggest in southern and eastern part of Europe as dealer and inspector on live games – Roulette, Black Jack etc.

Second job was also in very big casino when I decided to change the job.

Third working place was new in Macedonia and in southern part of europe - private fm radio stations. I was among the first who opened private fm radio station in my country and after the first one I had several more radio stations in other cities.

Next job was on internet where I made and owned many web sites and internet radio stations.

For ham radio comunity i made Internet Ham Radio Network with 3 different stations – Radio 59, Radio 73 and Radio 88.

Now i am playing with almost everything from the past BUT the biggest interest i have is for network marketing.

With network marketing there are a lot of oportunities for every kind of people.
Doesn't matter from which country you are, doesn't matter are you reach, doesn't matter do you have good education etc.
There is chance for everybody - if you want to know something more check my website or send me a message.

z39z

In the past I was very active on radio station --- mostly on HF.

My favorite bands were 80 and 40 metters where i worked almost everything i heard. I worked even WAZ Zone 1 and 31 on 80 which are very hard to hear and even harder to work. First stations I worked from this zones were KL7XX and AH6NF at the end of 90's.

On 80 mtrs i worked 240 DXCC and on 40 mtrs 300 DXCC just with dipol 17 mtrs high and about 400 watts output.
I miss 9BDXCC and 9BWAZ because i was not active on 160 mtrs.

In contests i started to work in 1982 from the shack of local radio club station YU5FAD and after that as YT5G and with my home call YZ5AA.

That was in ex Yugoslavia.

When my country Republic of Macedonia got new prifex i started with new call Z32AF and after that I changed to Z39Z.

Z3A PonikvaFirst 50 MHz qso's i made with 4 watts home made transverter and vertical antenna. Interesting thing is during that summer the most of the stations were heard and worked without any problem were from South Africa.

In contests i am part of Z3A contest team.

We had very good location 2.000 meters above the sea level about 40 km away the city.

From this place we made very good results in the biggest contests.

Interesting thing is that we are almost every year in top 3 and 2 times we took first place.