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Florence HamFest 2013

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A new interesting HamFest has been announced from my local ARI club.

The Florence HamFest, is a Flea Market and Ham Radio Convention that will take place on 6 April 2013 in Florence.

Link to english page of the Florence HamFest

During the last year edition, visitors were almost one thousand with 84 expositors.
Along to the flea market, has been reserved a space for local Amateur Radio Associations, including AMSAT, local ARI Sections and some DX Peditions crew like the guys from II0MZ Antartica.

Well this year looks like it will be more ham radio events scheduled, as member of the organization team I’m really pleased to see so much interest and enthusiasm around this event.

If you are interested on joining or simply visiting the HamFest  we can reserve you a place to stay in Florence at a reasonable price.
This could be an interesting opportunity to mix ham radio with a Florence Tourist Tour.

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JOTA 2010 in Florence

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JOTA Firenze

I’ve been visiting the yearly JOTA site in Florence, this saturday.
The full event has been managed by local hams and in particular by IW5EGT Alessio that were on air using the special callsign II5BP.

Antenna farm this year consisted in a rotary dipole for 20 and 40 meters, along to some VHF antennas used for local contacts.