The entire 140-year oeuvre of Popular Science magazine has been archived for free browsing, thanks to a partnership with Google. Popular Science includes some Amateur Radio-related articles, such as “You Can Talk Around the World” in the January 1932 edition, “Thousands of Radio Amateurs Find it Easy to Learn Morse Code” from the March 1932 edition, and “The Hams Join Up” from the November 1941 edition. Many other articles deal with radio and radio repair as well as do-it-yourself electronics projects.
The Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS) has announced dates in 2021 during which MARS members will operate on 60 meters for interoperability with the amateur radi... Read more
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More than 80,000 contacts went into logs at YOTA suffix stations and others participating in December Youngsters on the Air (YOTA) Month, with most operations in International Amateur Radio... Read more
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The FCC says it will reactivate its Equipment Authorization System (EAS), which had been unavailable since the FCC ran out of funds on January 3 because of the partial government shutdown th... Read more
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The current Icom UT-133 Bluetooth unit is being replaced with a new version that is compatible with not only the ID-5100E and IC-2730E Amateur Radio mobile transceivers but also with Icom’s... Read more
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YAESU Catalog – The Radio The Yaesu brand is well known among ham radio aficionados and is synonymous with premium quality ham radios. From stationary multi-feature communications equ... Read more
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The Radio Club Argentino, IARU Member Society has succeeded with its petition to their local communications authorities gaining 630m and 60m bands and extension of 160m, 80m and 30m The new... Read more
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This program teaches you to receive Morse Machine code (CW). It starts with two letters and adds more when it sees that you are ready. This is the easiest way to learn code because the compu... Read more
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Talking to friends. Serving your community. Chasing DX. Trying a new mode. Working a contest. Taking your radio out in the field. The 2018 ARRL Calendarfeatures photos of exciting on-air ope... Read more
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by Mike Wall, Space.com Senior Writer An American spy satellite and 13 tiny “cubesats” shared a rocket ride to orbit this morning, lighting up the predawn sky over their Californ... Read more
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Jay Pecora, KB8O from Elyria, OH demonstrates his DX Engineering Receive Four-Square system on 160 meters. Read more
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Just days ahead of the 2019 Hurricane Season, dozens of hams along the US East Coast will demonstrate Amateur Radio’s ability to deliver messages without commercial power, infrastructure, or... Read more
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by Frank Abderholden For Vietnam veteran John Nugent, who served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, coming home to Newburgh, N.Y., meant some isolation, according to his son Chris, but his love... Read more
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At its December 12 meeting, the FCC formally adopted a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) in WT Docket 19-348 and invited comments on its plan to remove “existing non-federal secondary rad... Read more
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WorldFirst HamTv ARISS school contact with astronaut Tim Peake GB1SS & Royal Masonic School for Girls,UK. GB1RMS. Heard some of the downlink on 145.800 and later used packet digipeater R... Read more
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David, ZS1BCE (also ZD9A) is returning to Marion Island in the new year and will be active as ZS8Z when time permits. He will remain on the island (working as a communications technician) un... Read more
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Mix and match any four HF/VHF/UHF bands. Example: screw in 80,40,20 meter hamsticks and a dual band 2M/440 MHz whip (two on each band) on opposite sides. Now you have an automatic bandswitch... Read more
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Release: WSJT-X 2.1.0-rc7 June 3, 2019 ————————- Changes and bug fixes since WSJT-X 2.1.0-rc5: IMPORTANT CHANGES TO THE FT4 PROTOCOL *** NOT B... Read more
Daily sunspot number (yellow), monthly mean sunspot number (blue), smoothed monthly sunspot number (red) for the last 13 years and 12-month ahead predictions of the monthly smoothed sunspot... Read more
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Tad Cook, K7RA, Seattle, reports: Sunspots disappeared on 4 days over the past week, but then returned. The average daily sunspot number declined from 14.3 to 5.4, while average daily solar... Read more
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