ARI Firenze hams have issued a brabd new marathon competition on the six meter band. The first edition of this spring contest, was born on idea of a couple of ham in my city that enjoyed six meters during last springs, and during last winter have decided to setup an official, competion, sponsored and managaed…
PM2000AM : New SWR meter on the way
A new Power Meter is arriving in my shack. I was looking for an accurate and readable SWR Meter for my station, that could cover HF and six meters band, and could support 1,5 – 2 KW. Budget limitations prohibites high level Array Solutions Power master or Bird Technologies Bird wattmeter, while limited distribution of…
The Gap Titan DX setup
I’ve taken some pictures during the antenna setup. Assembling the GAP Titan DX is not as simple as it may appear, in particular if english is not your own language. 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…
New International Reply Coupons
I’ve recently purchased at local central post office 30 new IRC valid thru 2013. Price here in Italy is € 1.29, but I’ve found also some QSL managers that sale suprlus IRC and dollars online… according to someone of these, price could be even cheeper, aprox € 1,15 according to g3swh! I’ve just published even…
The GAP Titan DX is UP
This week-end I’ve finally setup my new vertical antenna. I’ve taken some snapshots during the assembling procedure and will post later on in a dedicated page.
The winner is: GAP Titan DX
After evaluating HF vertical antennas I’ve finally choosen and ordered my new vertical hf antenna. Gap Titan DX is the choosen one. According to characteristics and price the Titan resulted the one with the best price / performance ratio. I ordered at Wimo (german ham radio dealer) and it arrived in 3 days via UPS….
HF Multiband vertical antenna selection
After a long research on antenna makers websites I’ve produced a quick reference chart to compare most popular HF multiband vertical antennas. This table will help me on choosing my next vertical antenna. Populatrity of antennas has been decided by visiting eham reviews, qrz.com forums, and other local ham radio communities. Price comparison has been…
Choosing the Vertical Antenna
I’m evaluating these HF Multiband vertical Antennas. – GAP Titan DX – Cushcraft R8 – Ecomet 7+ – Butternut HF6V – Hy-Gain AV-640 At time writing the preference is going to the GAP antenna… I will post soon here some more reports from reviews and tech specifications as well as best prices from european dealers….
Geocities SK, 10K Ham Radio pages lost
Geocities is closing on October 26 2009, and with it many ham radio related web sites will be lost. Currently Google index has 31,300,000 pages hosted on Geocieties.com and in particular, 6000+ pages related to Amateur Radio and 4000+ pages related to the Ham Radio keyword. This will mean that a large quantity of knowledge…
Ham Radio and Earthquake in italy
At 01.39 GMT of 6 April 2009 a big earthquake has destroyed many villages around L’Aquila not too far from Rome. At time writing, over 150 deads and 1500 injured are reported by medias, along to tens thousands of people that will have to spend many night without coming back to their houses. Ham Radio…