Today I’ve been in Montichiari ham fest and visiting the DAE’s stand I’ve been able to play a little with the new Kenwood TS-990S. Had also a few pleasant minutes talking to Ing, Marco Mascherpa, italian Kenwood representative. Well the very first impression is that the new top of line Kenwood product is defintly a…
Author: Simone
Born in 1970 currently live in Florence Italy.
Married with 2 childrens work as IT Technician.
Kenwood TS-990 at Florence HamFest
We have been told by the Italian Kenwood importer, that during the upcoming Florence HamFest on next 6th April, will be presented the new Top-Line Kenwood HF transceiver the TS-990s. Right in these days has been announced the final price in Italy thas is aprox 7500 Euros !
Micromix
Just added a new gadget for my Shack. the Behringer Micro Mix, an amplified audio mixer to optimize audio output management. With this 4 ways mixer I can connect up to 4 radios and use a single external speaker, can mix volumes, and with an Y cable I’ve also connected my new Yamaha CM500 headsets….
LoTW : Logs Queue lenght decreasing
After new server’s hardware setup at ARRL LoTW started processing QSOs faster then before. Delay is now aprox 7 days versus the 10 days performance of previous month. You can chech the status here: http://www.arrl.org/logbook-queue-status
Florence HamFest 2013
A new interesting HamFest has been announced from my local ARI club. The Florence HamFest, is a Flea Market and Ham Radio Convention that will take place on 6 April 2013 in Florence. Link to english page of the Florence HamFest During the last year edition, visitors were almost one thousand with 84 expositors. Along…
80m 40m Inverted L Antennas
This week I’ve started investigating on Inverted L antennas for low bands (160 to 40). Expecially for restricted space scenarios, like mine. I found some interesting articles on the net, and a couple of PDF that I’ve embedded in an article dedicated to Inverted L Antenna for Low Bands
IQ5FI DCI FI 465 today
Just back from ARI Firenze HQ where we operted as IQ5FI DCI FI 465. Tnx Leonardo IW5EIJ for bringing IQ5FI again on air.
Twitter Integration
Just completed to integrate my blog to my Twitter account, so that newposts and modifications will be also forwared to twitter. This is my first Tweet via my web site.
Postage rates increase again.
According to a recent AGCOM news, postal rates for letters will increase starting 1 January 2013. Local newspapers reports that increase for european postage will increase by 10 cent. From 0.65 euro to 0.75 euro. Sending QSL via Direct will be therefore more expensive, expecially to sending to Asia and Oceania I’ve discovered, that for…
IP Sound
IP-Sound is a windows based application for audio exchange in a pont to point mode. It has been designed to work over a TCP/IPv4 network (internet). The main purpose of IP-Sound is to provide low quality audio 8-16kHz, with low latency for use together with remote control software…