The last week-end in Florence took place the first electronic and ham radio exposition, managed by compendiofiere. I’ve been there both days, the first one I got the opportunity to met PY1NB Felipe, who was here in holiday with his family. The second one, i came back to buy the LDG Z-100 automatic antenna tuner…
The 40 meter Stealth Vertical
 As published in antennex Dec. 2001 The 40 Meters band stealth vertical antenna by K7ZB “You’re 30dB over 9 here…” So goes the consistently fine signal reports received from around the USA and beyond – on 40 meters at the peak of Sun Spot Cycle 23. The most common antenna used in ham radio…
A new HamFest in Florence 6-7 Oct.
After 20+ years, a new Ham Fest will take place in Florence this year. Compendio Fiere, one of the most active hamfests managing company, has established the FIERA DELL’ELETTRONICA COMPUTER E TELEFONIA in Firenze. This is mainly a Computer Electronics and Phone exposition, where also amateur radio will be present with six national ham radio…
An effective 10-20m DX antenna for deed restricted lots…
Original article by K7ZB The simple 15′ vertical antenna shown mounted on the railing of our second floor deck has produced almost 200 countries worked around the world… VQ9’s in Chagos and 3B8’s on Mauritius in the Indian Ocean, TX0DX on Chesterfield Reef, VK0MM on Macquarie Island in the Antarctic region, BQ9P on Pratas Island…
DXTuners.com shutted down
Today surfing the net looking for ham radio live streaming, or remote controlled radios, I’ve jumped into dxtuners.com. Sadly, I’ve been redirected to new Kelly Lindman blog, where he annouce that his dxtuners.com has been shutted down by himself due lack of interest and time. I’ve been an estimator of Kelly’s work since 1998 when…
IW5EDI/P ham radio holidays
Just back from holidays, from tuscany coast. I’ve been active mostly in BPSK-31 on 20 meters and RTTY. I’ve been able to operate just during the baby’s sleeping hours… I’ve also enjoyed making a small bazooka antenna for 30 Mhz with a pieco of RG59 I saved years ago from an old 10 Mbit network…
Amateur Radio Map of Italy
I’m getting ready for the holidays, where I will probably will be active on digital modes. I will take my FT-857 and Buddipole antenna with me and I will try to operate from mobile station. I will be in Tuscany coast for 3 weeks this year, so hopefully I will be able to enjoy my…
A cheap J-Pole antenna for 50 Mhz
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 terms, it is an end fed vertical 1/2 wave which is fed via a 1/4 wave matching stub. If…
Sun’s next phase of activity will be mild
According to the Indian Institute of Science, and in particular to Prof. Choudhuri, the next active phase of our sun will be rather mild. They have based the forecast using a new theoretical calculation, pointing out that some assumptions in the previous forecast model are unjustified. Their final forecast, is that upcoming solar cycle will…
Upcoming solar cycle will be a big one
Solar cycle 24, due to peak in 2010 or 2011 “looks like its going to be one of the most intense cycles since record-keeping began almost 400 years ago,” says solar physicist David Hathaway of the Marshall Space Flight Center. He and colleague Robert Wilson presented this conclusion last week at the American Geophysical Union…