News
Icom IC-705 Unboxing & Operation From A Japanese Retailer
**Turn on English subtitles** Full credit to Nichiei Radio of Japan, thank you! Icom IC-705 Read more
ARISS Establishes Itself as an Independent Organization
Going forward, the US arm of the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station International working group will be known as ARISS-USA, an independe... Read more
KN6EQU Balloon Wins Cross-Country Educational Challenge Race
Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) partner ISS Above inventor Liam Kennedy, KN6EQU, of Pasadena, California, has been declared t... Read more
The K7RA Solar Update
Two new sunspots emerged this week, with a one-day gap on Tuesday with no sunspot. Average daily sunspot numbers rose from 0 last week to 3.3 in this... Read more
LAST MINUTE BREAKING NEWS FROM THE FOLKS OF STAYHOME MOVEMENT
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE JUNE.05.2020, HELSINKI, FINLAND LAST MINUTE BREAKING NEWS FROM THE FOLKS OF STAYHOME MOVEMENT STAYHOME RADIO E... Read more
“June 2020 Festival of Frequency Measurement” Seeks Ham Radio Volunteers
Grad student Kristina Collins, KD8OXT, in Cleveland, Ohio, is looking for radio amateurs and shortwave listeners — particularly in Africa and Asia — t... Read more
Six Meters Recently Running Hot
In recent days, 6 meters has been living up to its name — “the Magic Band.” On May 30 at around 1200 UTC, Rich Zwirko, K1HTV, in Virginia, worked Nico... Read more
The Yasme Foundation Announces Grants, Excellence Award
The Board of Directors of The Yasme Foundation has announced grants of $5,000 each to the Foundation for Amateur Radio (FAR) and to ARRL scholarship p... Read more
Equipment
Rotator Genius – 4O3A
Rotator Genius is a smart rotator controller that uses a magnetic sensor for reading azimuth. It can be controlled by a Windows or Android app. Motor... Read more
Elecraft K4 Update
by Eric Swartz May 19, 2020 Hi Everyone, At Elecraft, like many of you, we are in our 9th week of shelter in place. This has been tough on all of us.... Read more
ICOM IC-705 SDR transceiver Update
IC-705 HF/VHF/UHF Mobile Transceiver – Coming Soon! The new portable HF/VHF/UHF IC-705 has many great features such as SDR platform, internal ba... Read more
QRP Labs new QCX+ QRP CW/WSPR transceiver kit
QRP Labs has just announced the QCX+ which as the name implies is an upgraded version of the very popular QCX line of transceivers To date almost 10,0... Read more
Filtered 2400 MHz Driver Amplifier Kits Now Available
This kit has been designed by David Bowman G0MRF and contains all the parts required to drive a PA on 2.4 GHz for QO-100. The completed board will hav... Read more
Review
Get Your First Look at the NEW Yaesu FTM-300DR
** Available Late May 2020 ** The new FTM-300DR provides stable and reliable 50W RF power output. As in recent YAESU mobile transceivers, the FTM-300D... Read more
RFinder B1 Manual Programming – RFinder Android Radio
B1 specification ◇ Radio 136-174, 400-470Mhz, FM Wide/Narrow, DMR Tier II ◇ Suitable industry: ◇ Industry Police/Security/Railway/Critical communicati... Read more
The Xiegu G90 (GSOC) remote head controller in development
Xiegu G90 (GSOC) remote head controller currently in development at the coding stage.. Read more
QCX+ the new QRP Labs 5W transceiver kit
QCX+: a feature-packed, high performance, single-band 5W CW transceiver kit, with WSPR beacon and built-in alignment/test equipment. Available for 80,... Read more
ADALM PLUTO Frequency Expansion Modification Plus CPU Cores
“Here we take a look at the ADALM-PLUTO frequency expansion modification to give us 70 MHz through to 6GHz. Mine actually went as low as 46MHz!!... Read more
Digital Modes
New Summer EURAO Party to Premier FT4
The motto of the new European Radio Amateurs’ Organization (EURAO https://www.eurao.org/) Summer Party https://www.eurao.org/en/node/1045 is... Read more
World Wide Digi DX Contest
The World Wide Radio Operators Foundation (“WWROF”), in collaboration with the Slovenia Contest Club (“SCC”), is pleased to announce the first annual... Read more
LoTW Now Accepting FT4 Contact
The latest TQSL update (Config.xml version 11.8), released on May 22, includes FT4 as a submode of MFSK. It also adds AISAT-1 and PO-101 in the satell... Read more
ADIF 3.1.0 was approved today
Dave Bernstein reported this on the DXLabs support group today: ————————————... Read more
FT4 vs FT8 – A new mode, what’s the difference?
The FT4 Protocol for Digital Contesting by K1JT Read more
New FT4 Mode with more 20K spots in few your hours realese
Source: LINK WSJTX 2.1.0RC5 Release! – The FT4 Protocol for Digital Contesting The FT4 Protocol for Digital Contesting by K1J... Read more
FT4 Video presentation by K1JT
See More about New FT4 Here “At about 20 minutes into the presentation, Joe describes FT4 as being asynchronous, meaning that you can start tran... Read more