ARRL Contest and DXCC Rules Now Prohibit Automated Contacts

August 20, 2019 No comments

Following the direction of the ARRL Board of Directors, ARRL has incorporated changes to the rules for all ARRL-sponsored contests and DXCC, prohibiti... Read more

Happy 150! The Hiram Percy Maxim Birthday Celebration!

August 20, 2019 No comments

As announced in September 2019 QST – page 86   This year marks the 150th anniversary of the birth of the League’s first president and... Read more

Alexanderson Alternator Station SAQ Hails “Incredible” Number of Listener Reports

August 20, 2019 No comments

Sweden’s Alexanderson Alternator station SAQ says it received 438 listener reports — “an incredible amount” — for its June 30 Alexanderson Day transmi... Read more

Pirates On US Navy Satellites – UHF SatCom

August 18, 2019 No comments

Here we take a look at how to listen to the Brazillian Pirates on UHF SatCom Read more

FCC Dismisses ARRL, AMSAT Requests in Small Satellite Proceeding

August 16, 2019 No comments

An FCC Report and Order (R&O) released August 2 in the so-called “small satellite” rulemaking proceeding, IB Docket 18-86, failed to address conce... Read more

2 Meter Sharing Proposal is on CEPT Conference Preparatory Group Agenda

August 16, 2019 No comments

The final European Conference of Postal and Telecommunications Administrations (CEPT) Conference Preparatory Group (CPG) meeting prior to World Radioc... Read more

Australian Radio Amateur Reports First FT8 Contact on 122 GHz

August 16, 2019 No comments

In Australia, Roland Lang, VK4FB, and Stefan Durtschi, VK4CSD, completed what is being claimed as the world’s first FT8 contact on 122 GHz. The distan... Read more

FCC Staff Recommends Designating 988 as National Suicide, Mental Health Crisis Hotline

August 15, 2019 No comments

The FCC’s Wireline Competition Bureau and its Office of Economics and Analytics have sent a report to Congress that recommends that the Commission con... Read more

Chinese Satellite Profiles Earth’s RF Spectrum as Seen from Lunar Orbit

August 15, 2019 No comments

the Chinese DSLWP-B (LO-94) satellite that had been in lunar orbit provided a profile of Earth’s HF spectrum as seen from the moon. The microsatellite... Read more

Dayton Hamvention Radio Club of the Year to Hold Ham Bootcamp at New England Convention

August 15, 2019 No comments

The Nashua (New Hampshire) Area Radio Society (NARS) will conduct a free Ham Bootcamp at the ARRL New England Division Convention next month to encour... Read more