News
Meet Up with ARRL Virtually August 7 – 9 at QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo
ARRL will be a virtual exhibitor at the all-online QSO Today Virtual Ham Expo, Friday – Sunday, August 7 – 9. ARRL staffer Bob Inderbitzen, NQ1R — a f... Read more
ARRL Board Confers Awards and Recognitions
Meeting in virtual session July 17 – 18, the ARRL Board of Directors conferred three major awards. The Hiram Percy Maxim Award The ARRL Board conferre... Read more
Radio Amateur Takes Part in Historic First Commercial Human Spaceflight to ISS
Bob Behnken, KE5GGX, was one of two NASA astronauts who made spaceflight history over the weekend. Behnken and Doug Hurley were the first astronauts s... Read more
Hurricane Watch Net Reactivates as Hurricane Warning Posted for the Carolinas
With the National Hurricane Center (NHC) expecting Tropical Storm Isaias to become a hurricane again later today and make landfall this evening, the H... Read more
Review
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Silphase R1 receiver [ VIDEO ]
Silphase R1 receiver. Telescoping antenna 1.15m. Location is city center Warsaw, Poland. Outside temperature +4 Celsius degrees. Frequency 1413 kHz. I... Read more
VHF
1240-1300 MHz discussed at CEPT SE 40 meeting
The 69th meeting of CEPT ECC Working Group SE-40, held June 23-25, discussed the amateur radio 1240-1300 MHz band, the meeting documents are now avail... Read more
2,4GHz Helix-Antenna
Thing files are at https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3849410/apps And the rain cover is at https://www.thingiverse.com/thing:3899156 Read more
Propagation
Solar Cycle 25 is Coming to Life
SOLAR WIND SPARKS GEOMAGNETIC UNREST: Earth is inside a fast-moving (~600 km/s) stream of solar wind, and this is causing geomagnetic unrest around th... Read more
NEW-CYCLE SUNSPOT ACTIVITY
NEW-CYCLE SUNSPOT ACTIVITY: Solar Cycle 25 is gaining strength. Today there are two new-cycle sunspots on the solar disk: AR2767 and AR2768. Both have... Read more
An active region belonging to Cycle 25 will begin to turn into view off the northeast limb during the next 24 hours
An active region belonging to Cycle 25 will begin to turn into view off the northeast limb during the next 24 hours. So far the solar X-Ray background... Read more
Digital Modes
FT8DMC 3rd Anniversary-Activity Days 2020
To commemorate our 3rd anniversary, special event stations will be on air during the FT8DMC Activity Days from 1. to 31. July 2020. All stations will... Read more
K1JT , JOE TAYLOR HINTS AT POSSIBLE NEW MODE!
In a post to the WSJT-X email group today, Joe Taylor K1JT hinted at some ongoing experimentation of a new digital mode with sub-modes. His post was a... Read more
WWSA GACW Contest Rules.
WWSA GACW I – Dates Second weekend of June of every year. From Saturday 15.00 UTC until Sunday 15.00 UTC. 24 hours period. II – Goal To co... Read more
