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Author: Simone

Born in 1970 currently live in Florence Italy. Married with 2 childrens work as IT Technician.

N5ESE’s 87 ft Inverted L Portable Antenna?

Posted on March 9, 2022March 9, 2022 by Simone

Here’s one of my favorite antennas for QRP portable operation. It provides easy setup in the field, is extremely compact, and provides excellent performance on all bands 80 thru 15 Meters. It’s a non-resonant antenna, but don’t think for a minute that you lose anything from that. Using a field-radial system as shown, the feedpoint…

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N5ESE’s Shielded-Loop Receiving Antenna

Posted on March 9, 2022March 9, 2022 by Simone

Loop receiving antenna

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I5MZY 13 Element Yagi for 2 Meters Band

Posted on February 12, 2022February 12, 2022 by Simone

A homebrew 13 elements yagi antenna for 144 MHz by I5MZY

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Antenna Wire Launcher

Posted on December 21, 2021December 21, 2021 by Simone

Homebrew antenna wire launcher

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EAntenna 40m Bazooka Antenna Review

Posted on November 4, 2021November 5, 2021 by Simone

A new wire antenna on my roof for the 40 meters band, and on the field comparison with the GAP Titan DX.

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Dual Band J-Pole for UHF VHF

Posted on September 6, 2021September 6, 2021 by Simone

An homebrew dual band j-pole antenna

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Tuning Dipoles

Posted on September 4, 2021September 4, 2021 by Simone

Shortening wires, or adding length to wire antennas. A simple method to calculate length.

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IW5EDI/7 portable operation report

Posted on August 26, 2021August 26, 2021 by Simone

Report of my recent operation in portable operation using a Yaesy FT-857D and an end-fed antenna.

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Double Bazooka Antenna for 40 meters

Posted on February 7, 2021February 7, 2021 by Simone

Planning to setup a double bazooka antenna for 7 MHz during next months to verify performance of the Gap Titan DX on that band. I feel like the GAP is not so well performing on that band and I’m goint to setup for the CW portion of the 40 meters. This is the basic schema…

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Playing with the Graphic Tablet

Posted on January 9, 2021January 10, 2021 by Simone

Santa recently dropped this lovely gift to my son…..Well, I had to learn a little bit about how to use it before I taught him. I got inspired by the IARU World Amateur Radio Day leafleft..

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IW5EDI Simone

  • Licensed Amateur Radio operator in 1996 as IW5EDI, active member of ARI Firenze and ARRL
  • Class 1970, married with two childrens, love experimenting and antenna home-brewing. IT System Engineer, recently started having fun with morse code and Raspberry Pi


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