I’m evaluating these HF Multiband vertical Antennas. – GAP Titan DX – Cushcraft R8 – Ecomet 7+ – Butternut HF6V – Hy-Gain AV-640 At time writing the preference is going to the GAP antenna… I will post soon here some more reports from reviews and tech specifications as well as best prices from european dealers….
Author: Simone
Born in 1970 currently live in Florence Italy.
Married with 2 childrens work as IT Technician.
Geocities SK, 10K Ham Radio pages lost
Geocities is closing on October 26 2009, and with it many ham radio related web sites will be lost. Currently Google index has 31,300,000 pages hosted on Geocieties.com and in particular, 6000+ pages related to Amateur Radio and 4000+ pages related to the Ham Radio keyword. This will mean that a large quantity of knowledge…
Ham Radio and Earthquake in italy
At 01.39 GMT of 6 April 2009 a big earthquake has destroyed many villages around L’Aquila not too far from Rome. At time writing, over 150 deads and 1500 injured are reported by medias, along to tens thousands of people that will have to spend many night without coming back to their houses. Ham Radio…
QSL.net is moving
The K3TKJ world wide famous free web hosting service, QSL.NET and QTH.NET is going to be relocated elsewhere. Started in late 1996 by Alan Waller, the domain, host thousands of radio related informations, from personal home pages, to club sites, technical articles, and lot’s of valuable ham radio related documentation. The new owner will be…
Sunspots are back
After more than 30 days of 0 sunspots, 12 sunspots where observed yesterday according to latest NOAA report. Here is the yesterday sun picture from nasa. Someone erroneously reported that the last month of August was the first 0 sunspots month after 100 years, and this particular event has been correlated to the particular climate…
Megahertz-Magazine QRT
After 26 years “Megahertz Magazine” one of the oldest printed magazine an amateur radio in France, close. At the home page, the editor explain reasons of QRT, and one of main causes, along to the increasing costs of productiond and postage is the influce of Internet on the world wide business of amateur radio. According…
WebSDR: a Tunable Virtual Radio from Holland
That’s become a funny game during our last local net on 2 meters. The screenshot you can see here behind is an online tunable radio working on 80 40 and 20 meters band from Holland. We did enjoy comparing the delay beetween our receivers and the live feed coming form this web radio, and it…
Italy extend 40 meters band
Starting from 13th May Italian Minister of Telecomunications announced that the frequencies between 7100 Khz and 7200 khz have been assigned to the amateur radio service in secondary status with a power limit of 24dBW (251 W EIRP!). Italian hams were expecting the extension of the 40 meters band starting from 29th March 2009, but…
Kenwood TH-F7E vs ICOM IC-E90
I’m currently evaluating these two handheld transceivers and before to buy one I’ve tried to understand pros and cons of both rtx. I will summarize here the work of my last two days, since I’ve not found any usefull review that could compare these two portable transceivers. Following comparison is the result of third party…
IRAQ: Ham Radio operators keep hobby alive
An interesting article on Iraqui amateur radio operators condition has been published on the Los Angeles Times. Many Iraqui hams have dismissed their stations because initially either US troops and Iraqui police were supicous that their transmissions are a tool of the insurgency. During the Saddam period however looks like things were not so much…