Amateur Radio made in Italy
Tomorrow 29 October will be held the 18° edition of the “Mercatino di Scandicci” in the palazzetto dello sport in Scandicci. A Check Point DXCC WAZ IOTA will be managed by Mauro Pregliasco I1JQJ For further information visit the Mercatino di Scandicci web site
Also this year I’ve been in local Scout Group Headquarter for the annual Jamboree on The Air. Along to some other hams belonging to the local ARI section of Florence, we helped the AGESCI Scout Group Florence 8 to keep in touch with other scout groups using our radio. Satation Callsign for this event…
I had to remove the antenna last week-end due to maintenance works into the roof, so I took the occasion to play a little bit with the Titan tuing rods. I Found this schema on the net originally made by CT1EFV based on the GAP picture. I made some minor changes, expecially to the 10…
DL9KCE released a new version of his ICNIRPcalc software that allows you to calculate safety distances for many know amateur radio antennas with respect to ICNIRP limits. Calculations are done by considering many depending factors, like your Antenna characteristics, Band, Gain, Power Output, Coax Line, additional attenuation and many more. By variating any of these…
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…
Ameritron AL 811 10/12 meter modification.
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…
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…
Looks like UV920R is of the most awaited transceiver since ever ! It is already almost three months that rumors says that a new dual band mobile radio is going to be relased in the market by Chinese Wouxun. But till now, April 2011 no one can give an price in Euro here in Europe. …
Odyssey Dawn operation in Libya can be followed on some of most popular military frequencies, but we know that all important communications are encripted and use satellite. So dont’ expect to hear any interesting communication. If you are looking for frequencies, there are some Yahoo Groups devoted to this kind of informations, but even some…