Just back from holidays and while testing my new ham radio toy, the buddipole antenna, I’ve done an interesting QSO with YO3FXL Mihali about bazooka antennas on 17 meters band. He told me that his roof is plenty of monoband dipoles, generic dipoles, and he is using a bazooka antenna for 17 meters. According to…
Author: Simone
Born in 1970 currently live in Florence Italy.
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IS0/IW5EDI Sardinia Isl.
I will try to be active on HF bands (mainly 20 meters) from 26th June to 7 July. QTH will be north-East of Sardinia Island (EU-024) More info will be posted on this blog. – Update to 3 July: I’ve setup my triband dipole in the camping and I can currently works on 20 meters…
Ham Grids
HamGrids will allow you to perform calculations with the popular Maidenhead Grid Square system. This grid system is used worldwide by amateur radio operators for many aspects of ham radio. Currently in version 0.5 Beta, with HamGrids, you can Convert Latitude and Longitude into a Grid Square, Convert a Grid Square into Latitude and Longitude,…
IARU HF Band Plan
Yet another interesting table I’ve recetly found on the net and tha I believe it could be usefull expecially to travellers. The followind table represents, the ham radio band plans for the 3 IARU regions.
ARI News widget
I’ve published this week a new Yahoo! Widget. It’s a ARI (Associazione Radioamatori Italiani) RSS reader, includes also the ARRL and DXZone feeds. That’s a new ham radio widget for the Amateur radio Konfabulator community. Download the widget from the Widget Gallery or learn what Yahoo! Widgets (aka konfabulator widgets) are… I’ve coded a couple…
A magnetic loop antenna for HF
Poor propagation last weekend
At least at my QTH and during the few hours I’ve been on air, have noticed a poor condition on mostly ham radio bands. I’ve been able to make some interesting contacts with just the dipole, beaming N/S. LA6KOA, ED8OTA/M, 9N7JO, A41NN, 5R8UO, ZR1ADI and 7X4AN mostly on 20 and 15 meters band.
ARI contest
Last weekend I took part to the Ari international ham radio contest. Unofrtunately time to dedicate to the contest has been very low, just a couple of hours, but I’ve dedicated all my “spare time” to the competition. Has been fun to be aknowledged so easily by so many stations, even being a qrp station….
4 elements Quagi antenna for 50 Mhz
This is an interesting quagi antenna plan. Total Boom Lenght is 3 m.
Ham Radio report: portable antennas
This was my ham radio portable setup station last week. Two interesting contacts with 5H3AA and 4J5A. Vertical antenna in the center is a prototype of the fishing rod antenna I’m testing in this period, even I’ve already understood that best results are on 40 meters band, but is still too early for a final…