Amateur Radio Blog Posts. Ham radio events, operations and local news
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
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
I’m one of the operator activating the Special Event Station II5ITA. Celebrating the 150th anniversary of the Unification of Italy, three special callsigns will be used throughout 2011 by members of ARI Torino (II1ITA), ARI Firenze (II5ITA) and ARI Rome (II0ITA). Details on the event and the special edition of the Diploma dell’Unità d’Italia (Italian
Last night I’ve published my latest ham radio related service on the internet. It’s a regional classified ads web site, (Mercatino Radioamatoriale) fully in Italian, and dedicated to itailans Radioamatori. It’s time now to spread the voice, making some direct promotion for the service that I’ve setup in only 3 weeks, using a craig list
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
This week-end I’ve finally setup my new vertical antenna. I’ve taken some snapshots during the assembling procedure and will post later on in a dedicated page.
I’m evaluating these HF Multiband vertical Antennas. – GAP Titan DX – Cushcraft R8 – Ecomet 7+ – Butternut HF6V – Hy-Gain AV-640 At time writing the preference is going to the GAP antenna… I will post soon here some more reports from reviews and tech specifications as well as best prices from european dealers.
Geocities is closing on October 26 2009, and with it many ham radio related web sites will be lost. Currently Google index has 31,300,000 pages hosted on Geocieties.com and in particular, 6000+ pages related to Amateur Radio and 4000+ pages related to the Ham Radio keyword. This will mean that a large quantity of knowledge