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My Begali Stradivarius

Revamping Morse Code

Posted on November 2, 2011 by Simone

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…

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Baofeng UV-X4

Baofeng UV-X4

Posted on September 18, 2011September 18, 2011 by Simone

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…

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ARI Firenze mercatino 2011

Hamfest in florence

Posted on May 2, 2011May 2, 2011 by Simone

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…

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Mercatino Radioamatori Firenze

Mercatino Radioamatori Firenze 2011

Posted on April 25, 2011February 22, 2012 by Simone

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…

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QRZ.com new Italian Flag!

New Italian Flag by QRZ.com

Posted on January 24, 2011January 24, 2011 by Simone

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…

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RadioAnnunci.it

Posted on November 14, 2010January 4, 2011 by Simone

Last night I’ve published my latest ham radio related service on the internet. It’s a regional classified ads web site, (Mercatino Radioamatoriale) fully in Italian, and dedicated to itailans Radioamatori. It’s time now to spread the voice, making some direct promotion for the service that I’ve setup in only 3 weeks, using a craig list…

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5V7TT DX with the Ghost ?

Posted on October 14, 2010January 4, 2011 by Simone

Today I finally had the opportunity to contact the 5V7TT DXPedition to Togo. This activation has been managed by I2YSB, an experienced dxer, who knows all tips and tricks of dxpeditioning, and from what I’m seing looks like are really making a fine job and tons of QSOs. It is said that the team is…

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The Gap Titan DX setup

Posted on May 22, 2010January 4, 2011 by Simone

I’ve taken some pictures during the antenna setup. Assembling the GAP Titan DX is not as simple as it may appear,  in particular if english is not your own language. Technical terms are often obscure to many ham radio amateurs the usually knows ham-lingo… I don’t hide the fact that more than once, I’ve had…

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IW5EDI Simone

  • Licensed Amateur Radio operator in 1996 as IW5EDI, active member of ARI Firenze and ARRL
  • Class 1970, married with two childrens, love experimenting and antenna home-brewing. IT System Engineer, recently started having fun with morse code and Raspberry Pi


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