50 MHz Marathon

ARI Section of Florence organizes the marathon dedicated to the band of 50 MHz which is open all radio amateurs. From this page you can access your online logs for the management of the marathon. To Join, request your personal userID and password by sending an e-mail to maratona50mhz @ gmail.com containing the following data : CALL, Operator Name, WWLocator and the category of participation.
The log function is already working, in order to allow users to test it, but log entries will be cleared at the beginning of the marathon.

New Section for 70 Mhz!

With the introduction of the sperimental period of the 70 Mhz band, ARI sezione di Firenze, created a special section dedicated to this band, inside the the 50Mhz Marathon 2012 edition. The main goal is to collect data of all QSOs done within this band by all radioamateurs taking part to the competition. The final database of QSOs made on the 4 meter band will be collected and sent to the Department of Electrical and Information Engineering of the University of L’Aquila, directed by Piero Tognolatti I0KPT, for further analysis on propagation.
All those who wish to participate in this initiative, should send an e-mail containing the CALL, NAME, the LOCATOR, and a description of their equipment at maratona50mhz @ gmail . com. Login credentials will be sent all partecipants, in order to be able to enter their QSO data or upload an ADIFlog file. All contactswill be grouped in the modes Voice, CW and Digital. In order to give a bit of competitive spirit to the event will be drawn an automatic classification based on the total QRB of each participant.

For Rules and Updated visit the 50 Mhz Marathon web site

At first while reading I did suspected April Fools and so I still believe it could be a joke, but reading comments on play.google.com looks it’s a real announcement…. Let’s see tomorrow.

Read more on Gmail Tap

By the way, April fools or not, if you want to use Morse Code to replace your keyboard you can already download an iPhone App, that will do exactly the same, Morse Code Email

Mercatino ARI Firenze 2012

The second edition of the Flea Market in Florence will take place on Saturday 14 April 2012.

We  decided to move the location to a larger one this year, since le last one was really too small to host all exibitors.

We had also to refuse someone due to the fact that only a few tables outside remained… and weather conditons in April, are not so good.

This year we have a large auditorium, of over 900 sqm with a large parking area, a Restaurant and a Bar.

We really exepect to stay larger this year !

In case you visit Tuscany in April, don’t miss this event !

Further informations can be reached at http://www.arifirenze.it

An updated and  complete list of ham radio repeaters in italy, is mantained by IK2ANE  in his website, where you can download the  italian repeaters excel file

Here is  a subset of Italian ham radio Repeaters in Tuscany and in Florence area (FI)

Nome	Freq	        shift	         tone	Prov.	QRA Loc
R0	145.600,0	-600 kHz	1750	LU	JN53HW
R0a	145.612,5	-600 kHz	 	AR
R1	145.625,0	-600 kHz	 	LI
R1a	145.637,5	-600 kHz		AR	JN53XL
R1a	145.637,5	-600 kHz	 	MS	JN54BC
R2	145.650,0	-600 kHz	1750	GR
R3	145.675,0	-600 kHz	1750	GR	JN53LD
R3a	145.687,5	-600 kHz	79,7	MS	JN54BC
R4	145.700,0	-600 kHz	 	PI	JN53IP
R4a	145.712,5	-600 kHz		GR	JN52SU
R5	145.725,0	-600 kHz	 	PO	JN53OT
R6	145.750,0	-600 kHz	 	FI	JN53SR
R6	145.750,0	-600 kHz	 	MS	JN54BC
R6a	145.762,5	-600 kHz		PO	JN54NA
R7	145.775,0	-600 kHz	 	MS
R7	145.775,0	-600 kHz	 	SI
R7a	145.787,5	-600 kHz	79.7	FI	JN53SR
RU0a	430.012,5	+1.6 MHz		FI
RU1a	430.037,5	+1.6 MHz		AR	JN53TP
RU2	430.050,0	+1.6 MHz	79.7	PI	JN53IQ
RU2a	430.062,5	+1.6 MHz	146.2	FI	JN53SR
RU3	430.075,0	+1.6 MHz	79,7	GR	JN53LD
RU3a	430.087,5	+1.6 MHz		MS	JN54BC
RU4	430.100,0	+1.6 MHz	 	FI	JN53SR
RU4a	430.112,5	+1.6 MHz	79.7 	MS	JN44XF
RU5	430.125,0	+1.6 MHz	 	AR
RU6a	430.162,5	+1.6 MHz		FI	JN53SR
RU8	430.200,0	+1.6 MHz	 	LU	JN53HW
RU9a	430.237,5	+1.6 MHz	 	FI	JN53LR
RU11	430.275,0	+1.6 MHz		FI	JN53QS
RU12	430.300,0	+1.6 MHz		FI	JN53SV
RU13	430.325,0	+1.6 MHz	 	FI	JN53OR
RU13	430.325,0	+1.6 MHz		MS	JN54AB
RU14	430.350,0	+1.6 MHz	 	GR	JN52RU
RU15	430.375,0	+1.6 MHz	88,5	GR	JN52TV
RU20	431.325,0	+1.6 MHz	88.5	AR	JN53XL
RU20	431.325,0	+1.6 MHz	88,5	FI	JN53SR
RU22	431.375,0	+1.6 MHz	88,5	SI	JN52TV
RU24	431.425,0	+1.6 MHz		PT
RU26a	431.487,5	+1.6 MHz		LU	JN53GU
RU27a	431.512,5	+1.6 MHz		AR
RU28	431.525,0	+1.6MHz	 	MS
RU28a	431.537,5	+1.6 MHz		GR

In the Florence area, a popular repeater is the R6, on 145.750 -600 it is managed by ARI Firenze.

Download a PDF of the latest
IARU R1 Bandplan 2012

or watch a presentation video at UK Six Meter group web site

Few hours ago QRZ.com published a new design interface.
They moved from the full wide screen size to the more common 970 pixel wide template. Much more similar to most of the blogs and news web sites.

One of the main innovations of this interface, is the navigation menu, that using the drop down feature allow a faster access to the numerous QRZ.com features.

While the Main site template has changes, the Forum template has been unchanged, and this is maybe one of the worst things… a so professional web site, with an huge income in founds, I expect could invest more on usability and web design.

In any case, the load time looks faster than before.