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…
80m 40m Inverted L Antennas
This week I’ve started investigating on Inverted L antennas for low bands (160 to 40). Expecially for restricted space scenarios, like mine. I found some interesting articles on the net, and a couple of PDF that I’ve embedded in an article dedicated to Inverted L Antenna for Low Bands
IQ5FI DCI FI 465 today
Just back from ARI Firenze HQ where we operted as IQ5FI DCI FI 465. Tnx Leonardo IW5EIJ for bringing IQ5FI again on air.
Twitter Integration
Just completed to integrate my blog to my Twitter account, so that newposts and modifications will be also forwared to twitter. This is my first Tweet via my web site.
Postage rates increase again.
According to a recent AGCOM news, postal rates for letters will increase starting 1 January 2013. Local newspapers reports that increase for european postage will increase by 10 cent. From 0.65 euro to 0.75 euro. Sending QSL via Direct will be therefore more expensive, expecially to sending to Asia and Oceania I’ve discovered, that for…
IP Sound
IP-Sound is a windows based application for audio exchange in a pont to point mode. It has been designed to work over a TCP/IPv4 network (internet). The main purpose of IP-Sound is to provide low quality audio 8-16kHz, with low latency for use together with remote control software…
Yaesu FT DX 3000 Sherwood Eng. Review
As promised me in November by Rob Sherwood, the new Yaesu FT DX 3000 has been reviewed and added to the world famous Receiver Test Data comparison table. Table is sorted by dynamic range – narrow spaced, means tat when you are listening to stations with signals close up the one you are focusing, you…
LoTW delays
As Ham Radio Deluxe user, and faith LotW subscriber, I’ve ever upladed my logs to the ARRL LoTW system. Since HRD started offering the automati upload / download I’ve enjoyed using this function. Starting october I’ve noticed a delay on receiving confirmations… and curious of this I’ve logged-in to LoTW page Since I was using…
Yaesu FT-3000DX – Receiver review
I’ve been told by Rob Sherwood that he will be reviewing the Yaesu FT-DX3000 this month. All receiver tests will be published in famous receiver test comparison table Rob Expect to publish data before end of year ! And I will postpone my purchasing decision after that. Some Yaesu FT DX 3000 resources
How Yagi Antenna Works
Surfing Youtube, I just discovered this amazing video that demonstrate in a very uncommon but efficient way how yagi antenna works.