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	LU	JN53HW
R0a	145.612,5	-600 kHz	 	AR
R1	145.625,0	-600 kHz	 	LI
R1a	145.637,5	-600 kHz		AR	JN53XL
R1a	145.637,5	-600 kHz	 	MS	JN54BC
R2	145.650,0	-600 kHz	1750	GR
R3	145.675,0	-600 kHz	1750	GR	JN53LD
R3a	145.687,5	-600 kHz	79,7	MS	JN54BC
R4	145.700,0	-600 kHz	 	PI	JN53IP
R4a	145.712,5	-600 kHz		GR	JN52SU
R5	145.725,0	-600 kHz	 	PO	JN53OT
R6	145.750,0	-600 kHz	 	FI	JN53SR
R6	145.750,0	-600 kHz	 	MS	JN54BC
R6a	145.762,5	-600 kHz		PO	JN54NA
R7	145.775,0	-600 kHz	 	MS
R7	145.775,0	-600 kHz	 	SI
R7a	145.787,5	-600 kHz	79.7	FI	JN53SR
RU0a	430.012,5	+1.6 MHz		FI
RU1a	430.037,5	+1.6 MHz		AR	JN53TP
RU2	430.050,0	+1.6 MHz	79.7	PI	JN53IQ
RU2a	430.062,5	+1.6 MHz	146.2	FI	JN53SR
RU3	430.075,0	+1.6 MHz	79,7	GR	JN53LD
RU3a	430.087,5	+1.6 MHz		MS	JN54BC
RU4	430.100,0	+1.6 MHz	 	FI	JN53SR
RU4a	430.112,5	+1.6 MHz	79.7 	MS	JN44XF
RU5	430.125,0	+1.6 MHz	 	AR
RU6a	430.162,5	+1.6 MHz		FI	JN53SR
RU8	430.200,0	+1.6 MHz	 	LU	JN53HW
RU9a	430.237,5	+1.6 MHz	 	FI	JN53LR
RU11	430.275,0	+1.6 MHz		FI	JN53QS
RU12	430.300,0	+1.6 MHz		FI	JN53SV
RU13	430.325,0	+1.6 MHz	 	FI	JN53OR
RU13	430.325,0	+1.6 MHz		MS	JN54AB
RU14	430.350,0	+1.6 MHz	 	GR	JN52RU
RU15	430.375,0	+1.6 MHz	88,5	GR	JN52TV
RU20	431.325,0	+1.6 MHz	88.5	AR	JN53XL
RU20	431.325,0	+1.6 MHz	88,5	FI	JN53SR
RU22	431.375,0	+1.6 MHz	88,5	SI	JN52TV
RU24	431.425,0	+1.6 MHz		PT
RU26a	431.487,5	+1.6 MHz		LU	JN53GU
RU27a	431.512,5	+1.6 MHz		AR
RU28	431.525,0	+1.6MHz	 	MS
RU28a	431.537,5	+1.6 MHz		GR

In the Florence area, a popular repeater is the R6, on 145.750 -600 it is managed by ARI Firenze.

Download a PDF of the latest
IARU R1 Bandplan 2012

or watch a presentation video at UK Six Meter group web site

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 allow a faster access to the numerous QRZ.com features.

While the Main site template has changes, the Forum template has been unchanged, and this is maybe one of the worst things… a so professional web site, with an huge income in founds, I expect could invest more on usability and web design.

In any case, the load time looks faster than before.

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:

Or read the complete article

Mercato Radioamatori Scandicci 2011

Tomorrow 29 October will be held the 18° edition of the “Mercatino di Scandicci” in the palazzetto dello sport in Scandicci.
A Check Point DXCC WAZ IOTA will be managed by Mauro Pregliasco I1JQJ

For further information visit the Mercatino di Scandicci web site

If you are looking for frequencies, there are some Yahoo Groups devoted to this kind of informations, but even some popular blogs and websites.

• mt-Milcom   http://mt-milcom.blogspot.com/
• Brian Herberts blog  http://bryanherbert.com/
• KB6NU  http://kb6nu.com/ham-monitors-libyan-psyops-campaign/

IW5EDI / HB9

This is what looks like today my QRZ.com web page.

Looks like at QRZ.com have changed the reference to  the Italian flag with the one belonging to Switzerland.

http://files.qrz.com/static/flags/248.gif

Well I’ve always dreamed to make some calls from a less popular country, but Switzerland is still too ham-populated.

Well, folks at QRZ.com you can do better, there are a plenty of new prefixes this year..

73
de
IW5EDI / HB9

Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, three special callsigns will be used throughout 2011 by members of ARI Torino (II1ITA), ARI Firenze (II5ITA) and ARI Rome (II0ITA).

Details on the event and the special edition of the Diploma dell’Unità d’Italia (Italian Unification Award) can be found at www.dui150.it

All of the QSOs will be confirmed automatically via the bureau.

Direct QSLs may be requested, complete with SAE and valid IRC or 2 US$, via IW5EIJ

Online Log with  calendar and latest spots can be rached at ARI Firenze web site

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 clone php application I bought last year, but never used anywhere.

So it’s now time to start promoting it for a while, even if I don’t expect a huge number of ads in coming weeks.

So if you are Italian, make a visit and register yourself. http://www.radioannunci.it

Technical terms are often obscure to many ham radio amateurs the usually knows ham-lingo…

I don’t hide the fact that more than once, I’ve had to use dictionary to correctly and fully understand instructions.

Of course the Italian manual version of the antenna is completing missing.  So i thought that my efforts in assembling and tuning this antenna shoudl have been concretized in a home made documentation.

• Have a look to my GAP Titan DX picture library

While on dxzone you can find more GAP Titan DX documentation and pictures