HF SDR Transceiver
News
Launch Window for AMSAT’s RadFxSat-2 / Fox-1E Opens on December 19
The launch that will carry AMSAT’s RadFxSat-2 / Fox-1E CubeSat into orbit will likely take place later this month. Virgin Orbit has announced that the... Read more
FCC to Require Email Addresses on Applications
Amateur radio licensees and candidates will have to provide the FCC with an email address on applications, effective sometime in mid-2021. If no email... Read more
December is YOTA Month
The month of December has been designated as YOTA month. The annual initiative sponsored by Youngsters on the Air (YOTA) initially focused on Internat... Read more
ISS SSTV 145.800 FM Dec 1-2
The preliminary crew schedule shows a Moscow Aviation Institute SSTV activity planned for December 1 and 2. This is a limited time experiment primaril... Read more
RadioShack Purchased by Online Retailer
RadioShack® is back as an online retailer of electronics, offering some parts in its inventory that largely consists of radios, batteries, telephone g... Read more
QCX-mini to be available for order later this week
From Hans G0UPL: Great excitement here at QRP Labs Towers just half an hour ago, middle of the QCX challenge (from which I am abstaining this month)... Read more
DXCommander Expedition Build & Review! Impressive Ham Radio Antenna!
Callum has created quite an impressive line of antennas that fit various ham radio use cases. Today we look at his portable offering The Expedition an... Read more
Antenna
KM4ACK End Fed Half Wave Antenna Build And Review
KM4ACK End Fed Half Wave Antenna Build And Review Kit includes everything you need to build a 49:1 end fed half wave antenna. Antenna works without ne... Read more
Five Wire Antennas Vying for Reference Station
Five Wire Antennas Vying for Reference Station Read more
A Super-Duper Tiny 3D-Printed HF Radio Antenna.
A Super-Duper Tiny 3D-Printed HF Radio Antenna. Read more
Small Garden Vertical HF Antenna Installation
Vertical HF Antenna Installation Read more
An Unusual Jpole Antenna
An Unusual Jpole Antenna Read more
CHA MPAS LITE: CHAMELEON DESIGNS A NEW QRP COMPACT PORTABLE ANTENNA SYSTEM
The CHA MPAS LITE is the little brother of the CHA MPAS 2.0 – the most popular Modular Portable Antenna ... Read more
How I designed the Nebula eXtreme Multiband 18m DX Commander Antenna
eXtreme Multiband 18m DX Read more
Contesting
ARRL to Award John Devoldere, ON4UN, Memorial Plaque for ARRL 160-Meter Contest
For the ARRL 160-Meter Contest taking place December 4 – 6 UTC, the ARRL Programs and Services Committee — on behalf of the ARRL Board of Directors —... Read more
LZ DX Contest
Organized ByBulgarian Federation of Radio Amateurs Date and periodThe weekend before the last full weekend of November (the weekend before CQWW CW con... Read more
CQ WPX Contests Add New “Multi-Transmitter Distributed” Category, Remove Single-Op Unassisted Categories
Sayville, NY – November 16, 2020) – A new “Multi-Transmitter Distributed” category is being added to the CQ World Wide WPX Contests to better accommod... Read more
CQ WW SSB/CW 2020 Online Scoring Trophy program
ContestOnlineScore.com and our sponsor Icom America Inc. are establishing a special award program to encourage the use of scoreboards during internat... Read more
CQ WW Contest SSB 2020
The CQ WW is the largest Amateur Radio competition in the world. Over 35,000 participants take to the airwaves on the last weekend of October (SSB) an... Read more
Jamboree on the Air Takes Place this Weekend
Scouting’s Jamboree on the Air (JOTA) and concurrent Jamboree on the Internet (JOTI) will be held Friday, October 16, through Sunday, October 18. A ne... Read more
FT8 HEAVYWEIGHTS by 9Z4Y & KC0BRA
FT8 HEAVYWEIGHTS is an unofficial FT8 Special Event which… can be consideredsimply an FT8 Sked meet, it was first conceptualized in December 201... Read more
Dxing
80th Anniversary of the Battle of Britain
Special Event Station GB80BOB 1st September to 28th September 2020 The Royal Air Force Amateur Radio Society (RAFARS) will be operating a Special Even... Read more
The King of DX Marathons PY5EG OMS
According to the rules, a station may be awarded only one of the four trophies in any one year, and may be awarded each of trophies only once in any 3... Read more
Enthusiasm Undimmed for International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend
The 23rd International Lighthouse Lightship Weekend (ILLW) takes place this weekend. The 2-day event begins at 0001 UTC on August 22 and continues unt... Read more
ARRL Seeks Vintage DX Logs for Archive
ARRL continues to solicit paper logs of prominent DXpeditions or logs from stations and operators active from more rare locations from the 1950s throu... Read more
Antenna Genius 8×1 – 4O3A
Antenna Genius is a smart antenna switch that features 8 antennas to 1 radio. Designed for less demanding applications. LAN/WAN capability was a core... Read more
First contact made on 40 MHz between Ireland and Lithuania
On Wednesday the 29th of April 2020, EI4GNB in Ireland managed to complete a digital FT8 contact with LY2YR on 40.220 MHz on the new 8-metre band. No... Read more
WORLD AMATEUR RADIO DAY (WARD) RCD
WORLD AMATEUR RADIO DAY (WARD) RCD On April 18 the Dominican Radio Club will be celebrating the World Amateur Radio day (WARD). The RCD callsign will... Read more