Amateur Radio made in Italy
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…
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…
This antenna requires the use of Tuned Open wire feed line , ladder line , window line , etc. NOT Coax cable ! It is suggested a 450 – 600 ohm line. This antenna also requires the use of a matching network “Transmatch” at the transmitter end of the feed line. WH2T used a 75…
Putting your first ham radio station together can be an expensive proposition. One way to cut costs is to keep the antenna simple. Here’s how WB1FSB shaved the price and provided four band operation. This old QST article illustrate how Marian Anderson WB1FSB setup a four band 80 40 15 and 10 meter band, ground-mounted …
This is a project of an easy to build dual band (UHF and VHF) j-pole antenna done with a common TV twin lead and some coax cable. Original PDF document can be downloaded here