I’ve been in touch with Silvano’s team from 6O0CW DX pedition in Somalia and as like happened for his previous dx peditions , immediatly after the contact my QSO was listed on the official 6O0CW On-Line Log system, pratically live ! QSL for 6O0CW is available via the QSL Request Service ! Fine Job Silvano…
Author: Simone
Born in 1970 currently live in Florence Italy.
Married with 2 childrens work as IT Technician.
Baofeng UV-5R Review
I’ve owned this radio since one month now. I ordered this new model at 409shop.com for 45 Euros including delivery and customs. I’m also owner of a Baofeng UV-200 and of a kenwood TH-F7E. This new Baofeng products looks like to be a very robust handheld radio, compared to the other two ones I own….
Kenwood TS-990S
Looks like a new Kenwood transceiver is going to be announced and presented in Dayton next week. The Name should be TS-990 and it will be also presented in HAM RADIO 2012 in Friedrichshafen, Germany (June 22-24), and at Ham Fair 2012 in Tokyo, Japan (August 25-26). The final release date for the Kenwood TS-990S…
50 MHz International 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…
Gmail goes Morse Code with Gmail Tap
With Gmail Tap announced today (April 1st) , Google adapted the Morse Code to the new Tap interface integrating a morse code interpreter into their Gmail App for Android Smartphones. 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…
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…
Ham Radio Repeaters in Italy
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…
New 50MHz Band Plan
Looks like IARU Region 1 has published a new Band Plan for the ham radio six meters band, effective from January 2012. Download a PDF of the latest IARU R1 Bandplan 2012 or watch a presentation video at UK Six Meter group web site
QRZ.com new Design
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…
Ham Radio Licences at an All-Time High
Interesting Article published on 22nd November by Fox News concerning amateur Radio Licences that looks are increasing. That is a surprising data considering that in the Social Networks era, an old and ancient Communication method looks is being discovered by many, and it’s fellowers are increasing. Watch the Movie here: Watch the latest video at…