Amateur Radio made in Italy
ARI Section of Florence organizes the marathon dedicated to the band of 50 MHz which is open all radio amateurs. From this page you can access your online logs for the management of the marathon. To Join, request your personal userID and password by sending an e-mail to maratona50mhz @ gmail.com containing the following data…
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…
The second edition of the Flea Market in Florence will take place on Saturday 14 April 2012. We decided to move the location to a larger one this year, since le last one was really too small to host all exibitors. We had also to refuse someone due to the fact that only a few…
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…
Looks like IARU Region 1 has published a new Band Plan for the ham radio six meters band, effective from January 2012. Download a PDF of the latest IARU R1 Bandplan 2012 or watch a presentation video at UK Six Meter group web site
Few hours ago QRZ.com published a new design interface. They moved from the full wide screen size to the more common 970 pixel wide template. Much more similar to most of the blogs and news web sites. One of the main innovations of this interface, is the navigation menu, that using the drop down feature…
Interesting Article published on 22nd November by Fox News concerning amateur Radio Licences that looks are increasing. That is a surprising data considering that in the Social Networks era, an old and ancient Communication method looks is being discovered by many, and it’s fellowers are increasing. Watch the Movie here: Watch the latest video at…
ARI Milano obrained last october, for temporary period , the permission to operate on the 500 KHz band to develop experiments. After having obtained such permission, ARI Milano home made a vertical antenna with a capacitive toploading , a Transmitter and a Receiver for that band. A beacon has been setup with an ERP of…
Last week I’ve received the Baofeng UV-200, the Chinese handheld dual band transceiver under 50 USD. I’ve ordered the radio at 409shop.hk web site, and have choosen the registered letter Hong Kong post method to save on DHL costs, that were more expensive that the radio itself. Unfortunately the package has been intercepted ad italian…
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…