Amateur Radio made in Italy
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A large number of amateur radio operators and club stations will be active on all ham radio bands for the “1966 flood of the Arno Award” from October 29th till November 6th. The event want to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the tragic Flood of the Arno river that killed 101 people and damaged or…
Make sense to announce IC 7610 without an expected delivery date? Who will buy an Icom IC 7600 now?
Reception of the SAQ Station transmission on July 3rd 2016
Also this year I will be attending at the Florence HamFest. This amaeur radio fair has become a reference event in the ham radio panorama in Italy and it’s also becoming famous among the closest coutries, like France, Spain, Germany, Austria and Croatia. The particularity of this event is that is a fair dedicated exclusively…
I decided to publish this website in order to pass on some insights about this antenna that I’ve garnered through extensive experimentation. A warning though, some of the combined design aspects of the antenna may be unique and unorthodox, a think out of the box antenna design. Note! I do not have a B.S. or…
The frequency scaling formulas for Cubical Quad antennas are shown in this picture. Note that frequency is measured in Megahertz {MHz} and the total length of each element is measured in feet {ft}. The spacing of each element is the same and all directors are the same size. The gamma match uses a small air…
The purpose of this article is to give you an idea of what you will need to do to set up a new radio for basic Simplex, Repeater, and Memory operation so that you will have an idea of what to look for and concentrate on in the instruction manual for your radio. Programming a…
A rotatable dipole antenna project by KQ6RH
Please feel free to build or distribute the information on these antennas. G4DHF retain the copyright to the designs and ask that they are not manufactured for commercial gain. Introduction This is a design for a 5 element 2 Metre beam with a forward gain of 8dBD and a front to back ratio of over…
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