Amateur Radio made in Italy
I’ve been visiting the yearly JOTA site in Florence, this saturday. The full event has been managed by local hams and in particular by IW5EGT Alessio that were on air using the special callsign II5BP. Antenna farm this year consisted in a rotary dipole for 20 and 40 meters, along to some VHF antennas used…
Today I finally had the opportunity to contact the 5V7TT DXPedition to Togo. This activation has been managed by I2YSB, an experienced dxer, who knows all tips and tricks of dxpeditioning, and from what I’m seing looks like are really making a fine job and tons of QSOs. It is said that the team is…
Tonight I’ve been invited by Franco I5XFD to setup one of his recent toys. A PMSDR Software Defined Radio transceiver. Franco asked my help to setup the Winrad software, having just finished to assemble the PMSDR Kit. This SDR comes in a disassembled kit, and is very small as you can see from the picture….
Today in Sesto Fiorentino, a Florence’s surrounding municipality has been taken an Emergency Service demonstration organized by local administration. ARI Firenze has been invited as representant of emergency service provider. In front of our stand, there were local Police and Carabinieri exposition as well as a couple of Protezione Civile (ES) stands. Our Ham colleagues…
Just back from the newest free / exchange market dedicated to ham radio in Agliana in the province of Pistoia. This first edition, organized by ARI sezione di Pistoia has been hold in the center of Agliana ana there were aproximately 10 exposers. Drive directions where easily visible on the road. This is certainly a…
The yearly ham fest announced by Compendiofiere to be held on upcoming week-end at the Leopolda station has been deleted / postponed. This is what rumors are saying here and a confirmation of this is on the compendiofiere web site , where at the calendar page, Firenze Ham Fest has been removed. Local hams, loos…
ARI Firenze hams have issued a brabd new marathon competition on the six meter band. The first edition of this spring contest, was born on idea of a couple of ham in my city that enjoyed six meters during last springs, and during last winter have decided to setup an official, competion, sponsored and managaed…
A new Power Meter is arriving in my shack. I was looking for an accurate and readable SWR Meter for my station, that could cover HF and six meters band, and could support 1,5 – 2 KW. Budget limitations prohibites high level Array Solutions Power master or Bird Technologies Bird wattmeter, while limited distribution of…
I’ve taken some pictures during the antenna setup. Assembling the GAP Titan DX is not as simple as it may appear, in particular if english is not your own language. Technical terms are often obscure to many ham radio amateurs the usually knows ham-lingo… I don’t hide the fact that more than once, I’ve had…
I’ve recently purchased at local central post office 30 new IRC valid thru 2013. Price here in Italy is € 1.29, but I’ve found also some QSL managers that sale suprlus IRC and dollars online… according to someone of these, price could be even cheeper, aprox € 1,15 according to g3swh! I’ve just published even…