Surfing the net this evening, I jumped into the AMSAT UK site looking for satellite informations. The site reuslts hacked as you can see in above picture. A quick jump to archive.org revealed that the amsat site has been implemented using Joomla a popular open source content management system that too very often release security…
Author: Simone
Born in 1970 currently live in Florence Italy.
Married with 2 childrens work as IT Technician.
Yaesu to be acquired by Motorola !
Motorola announced today the intention to acquire 80% of Yaesu parent company Vertex Standard. Current owner will remain with 20% forming a joint venture. Who knows if this merge will offer Yaesu technical development new founds and resources to be implemented in next generation Yaesu products, or if this merge will sign the decline of…
DXTuners is back
DXTuners is back online. After this spring shutdown, looks like the system is starting up again, maybe thanks to Kelly SM0NHC or maybe not. This is not clear yet. Looks like this new system will host selected remote stations only and subscription will be free of charge.
Ham Fest Firenze Pictures
The last week-end in Florence took place the first electronic and ham radio exposition, managed by compendiofiere. I’ve been there both days, the first one I got the opportunity to met PY1NB Felipe, who was here in holiday with his family. The second one, i came back to buy the LDG Z-100 automatic antenna tuner…
The 40 meter Stealth Vertical
 As published in antennex Dec. 2001 The 40 Meters band stealth vertical antenna by K7ZB “You’re 30dB over 9 here…” So goes the consistently fine signal reports received from around the USA and beyond – on 40 meters at the peak of Sun Spot Cycle 23. The most common antenna used in ham radio…
A new HamFest in Florence 6-7 Oct.
After 20+ years, a new Ham Fest will take place in Florence this year. Compendio Fiere, one of the most active hamfests managing company, has established the FIERA DELL’ELETTRONICA COMPUTER E TELEFONIA in Firenze. This is mainly a Computer Electronics and Phone exposition, where also amateur radio will be present with six national ham radio…
An effective 10-20m DX antenna for deed restricted lots…
Original article by K7ZB The simple 15′ vertical antenna shown mounted on the railing of our second floor deck has produced almost 200 countries worked around the world… VQ9’s in Chagos and 3B8’s on Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, TX0DX on Chesterfield Reef, VK0MM on Macquarie Island in the Antarctic region, BQ9P on Pratas Island…
DXTuners.com shutted down
Today surfing the net looking for ham radio live streaming, or remote controlled radios, I’ve jumped into dxtuners.com. Sadly, I’ve been redirected to new Kelly Lindman blog, where he annouce that his dxtuners.com has been shutted down by himself due lack of interest and time. I’ve been an estimator of Kelly’s work since 1998 when…
IW5EDI/P ham radio holidays
Just back from holidays, from tuscany coast. I’ve been active mostly in BPSK-31 on 20 meters and RTTY. I’ve been able to operate just during the baby’s sleeping hours… I’ve also enjoyed making a small bazooka antenna for 30 Mhz with a pieco of RG59 I saved years ago from an old 10 Mbit network…
Amateur Radio Map of Italy
I’m getting ready for the holidays, where I will probably will be active on digital modes. I will take my FT-857 and Buddipole antenna with me and I will try to operate from mobile station. I will be in Tuscany coast for 3 weeks this year, so hopefully I will be able to enjoy my…