A Queen can grow old, but she remains a Queen, so her crown has to shine. So, thanks to an unusually warm January Sunday, I decided to bring out, for an in-depth cleaning, the RT-70/GRC I recently bought at a hamvention. Surplus and boatanchors lovers will well know this unit. It puts out 0.5 Watts from 47 to 58,7 MHz, in FM mode.  Built at the beginning of the fifties in the Read more →

The local section of A.R.I. (the italian equivalent of ARRL) held yesterday night its annual Assembly. It was my first time, and everyone told me the participants number (around twenty hams), was in line with previous years. With its 114.000 inhabitants, Aosta Valley (IX1 land) doesn’t count more of 80 licensed operators. So, with such numbers, it can be said attendance was pretty good. We could discuss Read more →