A fascinating story about the first experience of the Italian astronaut Luca Parmitano with Amateur Radio. Last week Luca Parmitano, had his first experience with a ham radio transceiver inside the ISS, and during a break, he was attracted by curiosity to turn on the radio and called “CQ Earth de IR0ISS”! Here you are…
Author: Simone
Born in 1970 currently live in Florence Italy.
Married with 2 childrens work as IT Technician.
Ham Radio Deluxe 5
Ham Radio Deluxe 5.x latest free version of ham radio deluxe
Scanning Osnabrueck
I’m in Osnabrueck north germany and playing with my RtlSdr dongle scanning VHF
SDR on your Android Galaxy S3
IW5EIJ Leonardo, yesterday night showed me a nice App running on Android, named SDR Touch. Connecting the Samsung Galaxy S3 to the RTLSDR dongle will turn your smartphone into a nice wide band receiver. Leonardo is however experiencing an unwanted and unexpected phone vibration during reception. Could not gave him any hint since, I don’t…
QSL Cards Ready
My QSL Cards including last months contacts that will be delivered via the bureau are ready. It took a couple of evenings to verify, select and print all QSL reports on the back but it worth the effort. Tonight, sorted by QSL burearu, will be placed in the proper boxes at the local Ham Club….
Portable operation on 6 meter
Today, having finally a sunny week-end, I’ve got the opportunity to bring my portable equipment outdoor. I decided to setup a random wire, but after a short query on wire antennas for 50Mhz I ended setting up a delta loop antenna for the 6 meters. I opted for the Delta loop design, on single element…
RTL SDR – First steps
An RTL-SDRÂ RTL2832U-based DVB-T dongle is my latest gift. I’ve been introduced to RTL SDR by IZ5XRC that talked to me about this interesting recycling capability of DVB-T Dongles. If you are curious to know, in few words, with a common dongle used to watch TV on your PC, you can easily use it as…
IU – New Ham Radio Callsign Prefix in Italy
The Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico has run out of callsigns with the IZ prefix. A new IU prefix has been just announced. The new IU Prefix will be added to the already in use prefixes for ham radio operators, I IK IW and the IZ. In Italy, we have several other Ham Radio Callsign Prefixes…
HAL 600 Atlantic – Amplifier
Today I’ve been able to talk to IW2ANU’s Power amplifier maker, GB Bonini, about the compact HF fully automated linear amplifier. It’a compact 600W output RF Amplifier working from 1.8 to 30 Mhz. Automatic Transistorized Linear Amplifier No Tune Inside Computerized Reduced size of this amplifier make it suitable for portable operations, easy to store…
My first approach to Kenwood TS-990S
Today I’ve been in Montichiari ham fest and visiting the DAE’s stand I’ve been able to play a little with the new Kenwood TS-990S. Had also a few pleasant minutes talking to Ing, Marco Mascherpa, italian Kenwood representative. Well the very first impression is that the new top of line Kenwood product is defintly a…