Long time, no talk. Not that I missed news to talk about, but hey writing is a creative activity. You’ve to be inspired to put your pen on paper. Today it feels just fine, and I’ll tell you about the main changes in the IX1CKN world (even if they’re mostly concerning my SWL/BCL side of the hobby). Read more →

It all started in 2007, when a friend (I won’t mention you again, but you know who you are!) came by and said something like: “shortwaves aren’t today the shade of what they were 20 years ago. The only band giving a meaning to the DX concept is currently MW”. At first, it puzzled me. I had to understand how the frequencies used to listen to a station I could see the antenna from my window were Read more →

Truth is that when you’re writing not only for your blog, the struggle with deadlines gets continuous. So, your personal space, that should be a priority, finds you with very poor update time. All this to say that, if you haven’t stumbled into it somewhere else (for example, on QRZ.com’s forum it scored a nice number of comments), I wrote a story for DXCoffee.com on the 7O6T (Yemen) and 6O0CW (Somalia) Read more →

Easter’s Monday (“Little Easter”, as it’s called in Italy) makes a perfect day for field radio. If weather is not horrible, everyone feels the need to walk, to burn extra-nourishment of the day before. So, considering sun was quite high, and temperature was not too cold (10° Celsius), I decided I’d go for some trekking. Weeks ago I noticed an hill, above the place where I live, that Read more →

Long silence here, lately. Many things going on, however, on hamradio and SWL sides. Problem is the lack of time to tell them. However, tonight I wanted to stop this absence with something that caught my attention since I heard it at first. It’s about – as you can guess, knowing a bit my interest – field operations, but in a highly unusual theater. Next Saturday, 31st March, two italian collegues, Read more →