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January 17, 2012 – 2:27 pm | One Comment

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 …

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A cheap J-Pole antenna for 50 Mhz

May 28, 2007 – 10:54 pm | 6 Comments

Need a general purpose antenna on “6 – the magic band” ?
The J-Pole is an easy-to-build and inexpensive device that provides an omni-directional vertically polarised antenna without the need for a ground plane. In technical …

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Calculate safety distance from your antenna

DL9KCE released a new version of his ICNIRPcalc software that allows you to calculate safety distances for many know amateur radio antennas with respect to ICNIRP limits.
Calculations are done by considering many depending factors, like …

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DXing »

500 KHz Beacon by ARI Milano

ARI Milano obrained last october, for temporary period , the permission to operate on the 500 KHz band to develop experiments.
After having obtained such permission, ARI Milano home made a vertical antenna with a capacitive …

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Equipment »

Baofeng UV-200 vs Kenwood TH-F7E

Last week I’ve received the Baofeng UV-200, the Chinese handheld dual band transceiver under 50 USD.
I’ve ordered the radio at 409shop.hk web site, and have choosen the registered letter Hong Kong post method to save …

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Ham Radio Events »

JOTA 2011

Also this year I’ve been in local Scout Group Headquarter for the annual Jamboree on The Air.
Along to some other hams belonging to the local ARI section of Florence, we helped the AGESCI Scout Group …

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Ham Radio Software »

Calculate safety distance from your antenna

DL9KCE released a new version of his ICNIRPcalc software that allows you to calculate safety distances for many know amateur radio antennas with respect to ICNIRP limits.
Calculations are done by considering many depending factors, like …

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QSLing »

LoTW and Contestia mode

I was uploading the latest LoTW entries to ARRL LoTW today, and the TQSL application found errors on validating some QSOs done in Contestia mode.
Looks like the Contestia mode is not recognized by ARRL …

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