Amateur Radio made in Italy
ARI Milano obrained last october, for temporary period , the permission to operate on the 500 KHz band to develop experiments. After having obtained such permission, ARI Milano home made a vertical antenna with a capacitive toploading , a Transmitter and a Receiver for that band. A beacon has been setup with an ERP of…
Last week I’ve received the Baofeng UV-200, the Chinese handheld dual band transceiver under 50 USD. I’ve ordered the radio at 409shop.hk web site, and have choosen the registered letter Hong Kong post method to save on DHL costs, that were more expensive that the radio itself. Unfortunately the package has been intercepted ad italian…
I’ve just started making practice on the air with Morse code. After many years and three courses, I found time and inspiration to start making some contacts on the air in CW. If you are one of the unlucky operator that found me on CW, accept my apologies…. I’m still learning how to conduct a…
Tomorrow 29 October will be held the 18° edition of the “Mercatino di Scandicci” in the palazzetto dello sport in Scandicci. A Check Point DXCC WAZ IOTA will be managed by Mauro Pregliasco I1JQJ For further information visit the Mercatino di Scandicci web site
Also this year I’ve been in local Scout Group Headquarter for the annual Jamboree on The Air. Along to some other hams belonging to the local ARI section of Florence, we helped the AGESCI Scout Group Florence 8 to keep in touch with other scout groups using our radio. Satation Callsign for this event…
I had to remove the antenna last week-end due to maintenance works into the roof, so I took the occasion to play a little bit with the Titan tuing rods. I Found this schema on the net originally made by CT1EFV based on the GAP picture. I made some minor changes, expecially to the 10…
DL9KCE released a new version of his ICNIRPcalc software that allows you to calculate safety distances for many know amateur radio antennas with respect to ICNIRP limits. Calculations are done by considering many depending factors, like your Antenna characteristics, Band, Gain, Power Output, Coax Line, additional attenuation and many more. By variating any of these…
I’ve just found on the net someone announcing the new Baofeng UV-X4 trasceiver. Well, at time writng have not found any confirmation at Vero Telecom website but looks like a preview announcement newsletter has been sent to dealers indicating the availability and a brochure that can be downloaded from here. UV-3R vs UV-X4 Looks like…
Ameritron AL 811 10/12 meter modification.
An excellent result on participants, for our first HamFest here in Firenze. We had to add tables outside the main room to host everyone and during the morning we had a huge numbers of visitors. Exposers came from many parts of Italy and particularly from Tuscany and Emilia Romanga, but also from Lazio. Due to…