Some ARRL Contest Award Certificates Now Available for Download

July 12, 2018 No comments

The ARRL Contest Branch has announced that some contest award certificates now are available for download from the ARRL website in PDF and JPEG format... Read more

Verizon issues furious response to FCC, in Morse code , dated 1934

February 27, 2015 No comments

  by Jon Brodkin Verizon is just so mad at the Federal Communications Commission today that a normal press release wouldn’t do. After all,... Read more

Galileo to Go Live on Thursday

December 14, 2016 No comments

  Galileo  system, which has a wideband downlink at 1260-1300 MHz, is to go live on Thursday, December 15, 2016 Europe’s Global satellite navigat... Read more

Philippine Radio Amateurs Activate for Weather Emergencies

December 26, 2017 No comments

Philippines Amateur Radio Association’s (PARA) Ham Emergency Radio Operations (HERO) volunteers assisted with emergency communication support in the w... Read more

International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend on Track for 2020

July 16, 2020 No comments

Registrations for this year’s popular International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend (ILLW) appear to have been largely unaffected by the current COVID-19... Read more

Solar Flux and Fast Wind Boost for the Holidays | Solar Storm Forecast 12.24.2020

December 24, 2020 No comments

Solar Flux and Fast Wind Boost for the Holidays | Solar Storm Forecast 12.24.2020 Read more

Politico Article Raises Visibility of Amateur Radio Parity Act Progress, Challenges

June 04, 2018 No comments

On May 23, the US House version of the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that included the language of the Amateur Radio Parity Act (HR 555) c... Read more

Canadian National Parks on the Air Event Set to Start on January 1

December 04, 2018 No comments

The Canadian National Parks on the Air event (CNPOTA) will get under way on January 1, 2019, and continue until year’s end. A volunteer group of a hal... Read more

HAARP Gearing Up for its Spring Research Campaign

March 20, 2019 No comments

Alaska’s High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) is prepping for its spring research program. The activity will run March 25 – 29. The... Read more

Stealth Apartment Antenna for 20m and 40m!

April 17, 2016 No comments

by Scott W Harden  “I have no money for a HF antenna, and even if I did my apartment complex wouldn’t allow it! This is my story, and while I’m... Read more

CHA EMCOMM III Base – 3.5-30 MHz

February 19, 2018 No comments

The EMCOMM III Base antenna, is an effective multi-band High Frequency (HF) antenna specially designed for short to long range base station HF communi... Read more

South Africa gets 100 kHz on 60 Meter Band

May 26, 2018 No comments

On Friday 25 May, ICASA published the National Radio Frequency Plan 2018 in which amateur radio was allocated 100 kHz on a shared basis in the 60-metr... Read more

Ramsey Electronics shuts down it’s hobby kits division

January 06, 2016 No comments

“Today I went to visit a website I’d relied on as a staple source of electronic kits, only to be greeted by a static page that read, in pa... Read more

TESTING THE RTL-SDR ON WINDOWS 10

June 09, 2015 No comments

TESTING THE RTL-SDR ON WINDOWS 10 RTL-SDR.com reader Marty Wittrock has written in to let us know that he has been successful in getting his HF modifi... Read more

ISS Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams, KD5TVQ, Breaks Time-on-Station Record

September 07, 2016 No comments

Photo: NASA/BIll Ingalls NASA astronaut and International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams, KD5TVQ, and two of his space stat... Read more