AmateurLogic 89: Wires, Wireless, and Pi Smack Down

NA SSB Sprint: 4 hours of radio fun this Saturday!

April 05, 2018 No comments

Dear Fellow Ham, Just a quick note to let you know about a very fun, short (4 hour) contest happening this weekend. It is the North American SSB Sprin... Read more

AmateurLogic’s Ham College episode 8

August 31, 2015 No comments

Ham College episode 8 In episode 8 we discuss the radio bands available to hams. More questions and answers from the Technical class question pool. We... Read more

ARRL Seeks Vintage DX Logs for Archive

June 24, 2020 No comments

ARRL continues to solicit paper logs of prominent DXpeditions or logs from stations and operators active from more rare locations from the 1950s throu... Read more

Process for applying for remote invigilation exams – RSGB

April 21, 2020 No comments

How do I apply to take a remotely-invigilated exam? If you are rescheduling a postponed or cancelled exam, you can follow the process below yourself I... Read more

English-Made, Low-Cost GPS-Locked Precision Frequency Reference Now Available in USA

September 15, 2015 No comments

Grand Junction, Colorado – September 15, 2015 – Force 12 CEO Bill Hein was recently Googling for a low cost but ultra-accurate frequency r... Read more

New release of portable transceiver IC-705 that covers all modes including DV (digital voice) from HF to 430MHz band .

December 16, 2019 No comments

IC-705 Product name / model name Amateur Radio HF / 50/144 / 430MHz <SSB / CW / RTTY / AM / FM / DV> IC-705 Suggested retail price 124,800 yen +... Read more

Amateur Radio Sleuthing Pins Down Source of Strange RF Interference

August 09, 2016 No comments

Police in Evanston, Illinois, contacted the ARRL Lab, after an apparent interference source began plaguing wireless vehicle key fobs, cell phones, and... Read more

DX Code Of Conduct

May 04, 2015 No comments

  DX Code Of Conduct I will listen, and listen, and then listen again before calling. I will only call if I can copy the DX station properly. I w... Read more

Where to go During a Communications Shutdown

February 04, 2016 No comments

BY Ken Reid If you’ve been in meetings and exercises that simulate a total communications loss, you’ve likely wondered what you would do in the event... Read more

Fake News: Belgian News Magazine Misrepresents Amateur Radio Numbers

February 20, 2019 No comments

The Belgian Dutch-language weekly The Sunday (de Zondag) recently reported incorrectly that just 153 Amateur Radio licensees existed in the country, d... Read more

New “Pre-Release” Version of WSJT-X Includes FT8 Changes

September 06, 2017 No comments

A new “pre-release” version of WSJT-X now is available. This is the Amateur Radio digital software suite developed by Joe Taylor, K1JT, that includes... Read more

QSO Today – Dr. Ulrich Rohde, N1UL

July 30, 2018 No comments

Dr. Ulrich Rohde, N1UL, is a pioneer in RF oscillator and receiver design. Over the last 40 years, N1UL has authored over 60 articles for QST and QEX... Read more

DX Engineering Acquires Bencher Skyhawk and Skylark Antennas, Plus Butternut Antennas

December 05, 2014 No comments

Photo: DX Engineering Skyhawk Tri-Band Yagi Antenna ” High-performance Amateur Radio antennas, now with unmatched customer support. In a move th... Read more

Lunar satellite sends pictures to radio hams

September 05, 2018 No comments

by Andrew Jones China’s Chang’e-4 lander and rover are scheduled to launch in December this year to perform the first ever soft-landing on... Read more

Star Wars sound designer is, indeed, a radio enthusiast

January 03, 2016 No comments

SWLing Post readers may remember a post I recently published in which I believed I’d identified a familiar shortwave time signal station in the Battle... Read more