and yes, it's the end of the world!
While approaching the one hundred thousand kilometres (!!!) with my good ol’ Pegaso, I’ve decided to keep trace of the checks and repairs that are done on the bike. Really, until now I haven’t kept records of the maintenance, and still the bike works great after all these years (11 and a half right now). So here we go with […]
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Here is my first reception of an RTTY signal transmitting weather forecast. TX station: Marine Weather Service – Hamburg, Germany Frequency: 10100.8 kHz Way of transmission: RTTY, speed 50 baud, shift 450 Hz RX location: Oulu, Finland Receiver: Degen DE1103 Antenna: Shortwave active loop antenna placed indoor close to a window towards SW SINPO: 43443 Decoder: SeaTTY software, line-out of […]
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I’m quite sure if I get this cable connected… … I can make the radio work!!! [display_podcast] And if you can’t get it, the voice says: “Hello, this is EA3JE [it actually says: ‘echo apple three juliet echo’], ehm, good evening and thank you for getting back to my call, you are five and eight, your signal report here in […]
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By ordering a radio for shortwave listening, I’ve officially (re)started my activity as a DXer. The radio I chose is a small-size portable Degen DE1103. It’s a Chinese brand and it has got a lot of good reviews by SWL listeners (and an own discussion group as well), so I’m starting with something small and cheap but working well. I […]
Read moreMy dad found some pictures dating back 1994, the last year of my high school, when we organised a “worker management” situation, that is we occupied the school, not letting the teachers in, and taking lectures by ourselves. Some pictures have apparently been taken, and developed by some of us. That’s why they look like they have been taken a […]
Read more… in a champagne supernova. I know, the quality of the video is not the best you might get, but hey, that’s what you get from a normal digital camera. And yes, the shadow shouting down there is me 🙂 [display_podcast] Thanks to Tytti for the footage!
Read moreYes, I’m quite known for putting pictures with a short delay. Here is some snapshots of Andrea’s holiday in Finland on the July of the last year. And there’s also a fantastic video here below:
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What are we coming to? What are we gonna do? Blame it on the black star Blame it on the falling sky Blame it on the satellite that beams me home.
Read moreThere we go with the grand finale of my interview upon Iran, taken from the web-radio programme Siee, Giuee, Accaso (in Italian). This time we’ll talk about transportation, neighbour countries and much, much more!
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