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Category: Ham Radio 2.0

Interneta and ham radio, interactions and interfaces

RadioAnnunci.it

Posted on November 14, 2010January 4, 2011 by Simone

Last night I’ve published my latest ham radio related service on the internet. It’s a regional classified ads web site, (Mercatino Radioamatoriale) fully in Italian, and dedicated to itailans Radioamatori. It’s time now to spread the voice, making some direct promotion for the service that I’ve setup in only 3 weeks, using a craig list…

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Geocities SK, 10K Ham Radio pages lost

Posted on October 23, 2009September 26, 2010 by Simone

Geocities is closing on October 26 2009, and with it many ham radio related web sites will be lost. Currently Google index has 31,300,000 pages hosted on Geocieties.com and in particular, 6000+ pages related to Amateur Radio and 4000+ pages related to the Ham Radio keyword. This will mean that a large quantity of knowledge…

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WebSDR: a Tunable Virtual Radio from Holland

Posted on July 1, 2008September 10, 2010 by Simone

That’s become a funny game during our last local net on 2 meters. The screenshot you can see here behind is an online tunable radio working on 80 40 and 20 meters band from Holland. We did enjoy comparing the delay beetween our receivers and the live feed coming form this web radio, and it…

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AMSAT UK Site Hacked !

Posted on December 16, 2007September 10, 2010 by Simone

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…

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DXTuners is back

Posted on November 5, 2007September 10, 2010 by Simone

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.

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DXTuners.com shutted down

Posted on August 29, 2007September 10, 2010 by Simone

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…

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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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