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Author: Simone

Born in 1970 currently live in Florence Italy. Married with 2 childrens work as IT Technician.
Double Bazooka Antenna

Double Bazooka Antenna

Posted on December 29, 2016 by Simone

The Double Bazooka Antenna, a simple to build, coax based and broad band.

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QST – Digital edition, not for me sorry.

Posted on December 18, 2016December 18, 2016 by Simone

As ARRL member, I love to read QST from time to time. Honestly it’s the only real advantage of the membership. Being Italian, I can’t really benefit of all club services, and QST is the real added value. I consider myself  a casual reader of QST, since spare time is always very short and time…

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Double Windom Antenna

Posted on December 16, 2016 by Simone

A Double Windom Antenna for Eight or Nine Bands By Hubert Scholle, DJ7SH, and Rolf Steins, DL1BBC The asymmetrical dipole antenna developed and described by Windom (W8GZ) in 1929 has been used by many amateurs for many years as the FD4. This has also been the case in Germany. We discovered in an older periodical…

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IW5EDI new facebook profile

Posted on November 6, 2016November 6, 2016 by Simone

My new facebook profile

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59th Jota – operating II5BP at Firenze 8

Posted on October 20, 2016October 20, 2016 by Simone

A few pictures taken during the 59th Jota at Firenze 8 operating the II5BP station

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3 Meter Slim-Jim Antenna

Posted on October 7, 2016 by Simone

A Slim Jim Antenna for 3 meters, that can be easily adapted to 2 meters band

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II5ALL – 1966 flood of the Arno Award

Posted on October 5, 2016October 5, 2016 by Simone

A large number of amateur radio operators and club stations will be active on all ham radio bands for the “1966 flood of the Arno Award” from October 29th  till November 6th. The event want to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the tragic Flood of the Arno river that killed 101 people and damaged or…

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ic-7610

The Icom IC-7610 and the unknown delivery date

Posted on September 10, 2016September 27, 2016 by Simone

Make sense to announce IC 7610 without an expected delivery date? Who will buy an Icom IC 7600 now?

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Cubical Quad Antenna JS Calculator

Posted on September 5, 2016September 5, 2016 by Simone

A simple javascript to calculate QUAD Antennas This script was originally available at this address http://calc.n6ach.com/quad.html but page is currently returning a 403 error.

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D-Rats 0.3.3 Download

Posted on August 29, 2016November 18, 2023 by Simone

D-Rats 0.3.3 for Windows – Free download

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IW5EDI Simone

  • Licensed Amateur Radio operator in 1996 as IW5EDI, active member of ARI Firenze and ARRL
  • Class 1970, married with two childrens, love experimenting and antenna home-brewing. IT System Engineer, recently started having fun with morse code and Raspberry Pi


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