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…
QSL Cards Ready
My QSL Cards including last months contacts that will be delivered via the bureau are ready. It took a couple of evenings to verify, select and print all QSL reports on the back but it worth the effort. Tonight, sorted by QSL burearu, will be placed in the proper boxes at the local Ham Club….
Portable operation on 6 meter
Today, having finally a sunny week-end, I’ve got the opportunity to bring my portable equipment outdoor. I decided to setup a random wire, but after a short query on wire antennas for 50Mhz I ended setting up a delta loop antenna for the 6 meters. I opted for the Delta loop design, on single element…
RTL SDR – First steps
An RTL-SDRÂ RTL2832U-based DVB-T dongle is my latest gift. I’ve been introduced to RTL SDR by IZ5XRC that talked to me about this interesting recycling capability of DVB-T Dongles. If you are curious to know, in few words, with a common dongle used to watch TV on your PC, you can easily use it as…
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…
HAL 600 Atlantic – Amplifier
Today I’ve been able to talk to IW2ANU’s Power amplifier maker, GB Bonini, about the compact HF fully automated linear amplifier. It’a compact 600W output RF Amplifier working from 1.8 to 30 Mhz. Automatic Transistorized Linear Amplifier No Tune Inside Computerized Reduced size of this amplifier make it suitable for portable operations, easy to store…
My first approach to Kenwood TS-990S
Today I’ve been in Montichiari ham fest and visiting the DAE’s stand I’ve been able to play a little with the new Kenwood TS-990S. Had also a few pleasant minutes talking to Ing, Marco Mascherpa, italian Kenwood representative. Well the very first impression is that the new top of line Kenwood product is defintly a…
Kenwood TS-990 at Florence HamFest
We have been told by the Italian Kenwood importer, that during the upcoming Florence HamFest on next 6th April, will be presented the new Top-Line Kenwood HF transceiver the TS-990s. Right in these days has been announced the final price in Italy thas is aprox 7500 Euros !
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