A new wire antenna on my roof for the 40 meters band, and on the field comparison with the GAP Titan DX.
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Habemus LX metris – Italy gains 60 Meters
Italy gain the sixty meter band
Yamaha CM500 Replacement Ear Pads Cushions
Looking for Yamaha CM500 replacements ear pads. Yamaha looks like not distributing parts, so here is a solution to find some equivalent parts in the market
59th Jota – operating II5BP at Firenze 8
A few pictures taken during the 59th Jota at Firenze 8 operating the II5BP station
II5ALL – 1966 flood of the Arno Award
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…
YOTA 2015 – trip to Florence
A visit to Florence by the Ham YOTA 2015 group
Your QRZ on Facebook profile page
Thanks to an online petition made via change.org  promoted by NW7OR, starting from today facebook allow to add your own ham radio call-sign as altenate name and have it displayed in your public profile page This should allow others to look for your your by using your QRZ. This is how appears now my Facebook profile…
Award – UCI Road World Championship – Tuscany 2013
The ARI Tuscany Regional Committee (ARI CRT) – sponsor this award during the week of the 2013 UCI Road World Championships – that will be held in Flonrece, in Tuscany from 22nd to 29th September 2013. The Award is issued for confirmed two-way radio contacts with Tuscan stations (I5### or I#5###) in fixed or portable station,…
Florence HamFest 2013
A new interesting HamFest has been announced from my local ARI club. The Florence HamFest, is a Flea Market and Ham Radio Convention that will take place on 6 April 2013 in Florence. Link to english page of the Florence HamFest During the last year edition, visitors were almost one thousand with 84 expositors. Along…
Yaesu FT DX 3000 Sherwood Eng. Review
As promised me in November by Rob Sherwood, the new Yaesu FT DX 3000 has been reviewed and added to the world famous Receiver Test Data comparison table. Table is sorted by dynamic range – narrow spaced, means tat when you are listening to stations with signals close up the one you are focusing, you…