Since 1990; 1st class / CEPT
     Member of the following clubs:
     YO—DX—Club #269 (Romanian Club of High Performance)
     YO—MARC #43 (Maritime Amateur Radio Club)
     YO—QRP #107 (Romanian Club of Low Power transceivers)
     ARER #53

     AGCW—DL #2370 (Activity Group of CW telegraphy, Germany)
     RTC #244 (Radio Telegraphy Club, Germany)
     Italy CW Club #585 (Italian Telegraphy Club)
     EA CW Club #547 (Spanish Telegraphy Club)
     KCJ #237 (Keyman’s Club of Japan)

     I participated in many national and international contests, mostly in CW (telegraphy) mode. Over 35 international and 70 Romanian awards with 189 countries DXCC confirmed (DXCC is a list approved by IARU - International Amateur Radio Union and is a classification of the countries, islands and territories). Part of the Romanian National team in the IARU World Championship (CW—1,8Mhz).

Naval and sea related stamps
Medals and pins (over 10,000 pieces)
Old coins
Old handcraft and unique products

• Diving & Freediving
• Jogging
• Fitness & Body-building
• Tae-Bo

Around the turn of the century, Marconi began investigating the means to signal completely across the Atlantic, in order to compete with the transatlantic telegraph cables. Marconi established a wireless transmitting station at Marconi House, Rosslare Strand, Co. Wexford in 1901 to act as a link between Poldhu in Cornwall and Clifden in Co. Galway. He soon made the announcement that on 12 December 1901 at 12:30 a.m. (4:30 UTC) , using a 152.4 m (500 foot) kite-supported antenna for reception, the message was received at Signal Hill in St John's, Newfoundland (now part of Canada) signals transmitted by the company's new high-power station at Poldhu, Cornwall. The distance between the two points was about 3,500 km (2,175 mi). Heralded as a great scientific advance, there was — and continues to be — some skepticism about this claim, partly because the signals had been heard faintly and sporadically. There was no independent confirmation of the reported reception, and the transmissions, consisting of the Morse code letter ¨S¨ sent repeatedly, were difficult to distinguish from atmospheric noise. (A detailed technical review of Marconi's early transatlantic work appears in John S. Belrose's work of 1995.) The Poldhu transmitter was a two-stage circuit.The first stage operated at lower voltage and provided the energy for the second stage to spark at a higher voltage. Nikola Tesla, a rival in transatlantic transmission, stated after being told of Marconi's reported transmission that "Marconi [... was] using seventeen of my patents."

Sailing around the World, I had the great opportunity to be with the mega yacht Le Grand Bleu in the beautiful small city harbor of St. John´s (Newfoundland, Canada). Great people, wonderful city and old history.