Ameritron AL 811 10/12 meter modification.
Author: Simone
Born in 1970 currently live in Florence Italy.
Married with 2 childrens work as IT Technician.
Hamfest in florence
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…
Mercatino Radioamatori Firenze 2011
THIS POST REFER TO FIRST EDITION 2011 Questo articolo di riferisce alla prima edizione del mercationo avvenuta nel 2011 ! The next saturday we are going to manage the first edition of the local Ham Fest here in florence. Address to reach is : VIA GIOVANNI DA MONTORSOLI 1. Firenze. Will be…
UV920R Price
Looks like UV920R is of the most awaited transceiver since ever ! It is already almost three months that rumors says that a new dual band mobile radio is going to be relased in the market by Chinese Wouxun. But till now, April 2011 no one can give an price in Euro here in Europe. …
Libya Crisis Frequencies
Odyssey Dawn operation in Libya can be followed on some of most popular military frequencies, but we know that all important communications are encripted and use satellite. So dont’ expect to hear any interesting communication. If you are looking for frequencies, there are some Yahoo Groups devoted to this kind of informations, but even some…
New Italian Flag by QRZ.com
This is what looks like today my QRZ.com web page. Looks like at QRZ.com have changed the reference to the Italian flag with the one belonging to Switzerland. http://files.qrz.com/static/flags/248.gif Well I’ve always dreamed to make some calls from a less popular country, but Switzerland is still too ham-populated. Well, folks at QRZ.com you can do…
Double Extended Zepp Antenna
This antenna requires the use of Tuned Open wire feed line , ladder line , window line , etc. NOT Coax cable ! It is suggested a 450 – 600 ohm line. This antenna also requires the use of a matching network “Transmatch” at the transmitter end of the feed line. WH2T used a 75…
A Novice Multiband Vertical Antenna
Putting your first ham radio station together can be an expensive proposition. One way to cut costs is to keep the antenna simple. Here’s how WB1FSB shaved the price and provided four band operation. This old QST article illustrate how Marian Anderson WB1FSB setup a four band 80 40 15 and 10 meter band, ground-mounted …
An Easy VHF UHF Antenna
This is a project of an easy to build dual band (UHF and VHF) j-pole antenna done with a common TV twin lead and some coax cable. Original PDF document can be downloaded here
Jacars 2.0
Jacars2 is a free (as in beer) program designed to connect you to ACARSD servers around the world via the Internet. Jacars2 requires the Java runtime environment (JRE) and an internet connection. You are on your own for the connection, but get Java now. Provided you have the JRE installed, simply unzip Jacars2 and run…