IR0IARU will be active from September 15th to October 15th celebrating 130 years of radio and IARU’s centenary. Several special call signs "IxxIARU" and IQxxx will be on air. Rules and realtime logs on hamaward.cloud and www.qrz.com/db/IR0IARU
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I never thought I could listen (and work!) YB or BY on 40 meters with a simple and noisy multiband dipole.... Of course good propagation helped...
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I counted 146 FT8 spots from the same spotter in just one hour.And there are others doing the same all the day. Really I don't understand the point of flooding the cluster network with this infos. Luckily, using a telnet packet cluster, you can filter out them easily.
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Not bad for a G5RV dipole, at almost ground level, and 150W... Sometimes I noticed too much competition, it seemed more like a Contest than an Award. 906 CW QSOs overall. #hamradio #AmateurRadio #Radioaficionados

Soldering iron is always hot here... work in progress... 🙂
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An almost simple fix today on a tuner Daiwa CNW-419. Replaced "Tuner On" switch. The real challenge has been fiddling in there, between the hard wires, with the soldering iron and screwdrivers...
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[...] trace, replaced with a wire), an additional plate to host new encoder. But, eventually, VFO came back to life and works flawlessly

[..] and VFO kept jumping randomly. So I remembered a TRXbenc youtube video where he solved this issue using a modern encoder. That solution required some extra work, such an additional circuit for reading encoder steps, widen the encoder hole on the front pcb (who requested to cut off a [..]

New life to an old Icom IC-735 that had been set aside for more than a year due to its broken VFO.
Found worn photodiodes and obviously the spare parts no longer exists. Some mods found somewhere on the web improved the issue but did not solved it, [...]

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These days, until next December 31th, I will be active on HF as II0RFRA, a special call for our local A.R.I. club of Frascati IQ0FR, for Centenary of Italian Radio Broadcasting. Only CW (qrs please...). See you on air #hamradio #amateurradio #radioaficionados