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Category: HamRadio
Amateur Radio Blog Posts. Ham radio events, operations and local news
SDR on your Android Galaxy S3
IW5EIJ Leonardo, yesterday night showed me a nice App running on Android, named SDR Touch. Connecting the Samsung Galaxy S3 to the RTLSDR dongle will turn your smartphone into a nice wide band receiver. Leonardo is however experiencing an unwanted and unexpected phone vibration during reception. Could not gave him any hint since, I don’t…
IU – New Ham Radio Callsign Prefix in Italy
The Ministero dello Sviluppo Economico has run out of callsigns with the IZ prefix. A new IU prefix has been just announced. The new IU Prefix will be added to the already in use prefixes for ham radio operators, I IK IW and the IZ. In Italy, we have several other Ham Radio Callsign Prefixes…
Micromix
Just added a new gadget for my Shack. the Behringer Micro Mix, an amplified audio mixer to optimize audio output management. With this 4 ways mixer I can connect up to 4 radios and use a single external speaker, can mix volumes, and with an Y cable I’ve also connected my new Yamaha CM500 headsets….
LoTW : Logs Queue lenght decreasing
After new server’s hardware setup at ARRL LoTW started processing QSOs faster then before. Delay is now aprox 7 days versus the 10 days performance of previous month. You can chech the status here: http://www.arrl.org/logbook-queue-status
IQ5FI DCI FI 465 today
Just back from ARI Firenze HQ where we operted as IQ5FI DCI FI 465. Tnx Leonardo IW5EIJ for bringing IQ5FI again on air.
Yaesu FT-3000DX – Receiver review
I’ve been told by Rob Sherwood that he will be reviewing the Yaesu FT-DX3000 this month. All receiver tests will be published in famous receiver test comparison table Rob Expect to publish data before end of year ! And I will postpone my purchasing decision after that. Some Yaesu FT DX 3000 resources
Yaesu FTDX-3000
Also Yaesu present during this period a new product, the Yaesu FT DX 3000, a 100 Watt HF and 50 MHz amateur radio transceiver for the casual dxer and for the contester. By using new down conversion and sharp edged crystal roofing filter technology, this trasceiver is positioned just under the bigger FT DX 5000….
Gmail goes Morse Code with Gmail Tap
With Gmail Tap announced today (April 1st) , Google adapted the Morse Code to the new Tap interface integrating a morse code interpreter into their Gmail App for Android Smartphones. At first while reading I did suspected April Fools and so I still believe it could be a joke, but reading comments on play.google.com looks…
Ham Radio Repeaters in Italy
An updated and complete list of ham radio repeaters in italy, is mantained by IK2ANE in his website, where you can download the italian repeaters excel file Here is a subset of Italian Ham Radio Repeaters in Tuscany and in Florence area (FI) Nome Freq shift tone Prov. QRA Loc R0 145.600,0 -600 kHz 1750…