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12/19/2011 | Voting Now Open for January QST Cover Plaque Award

Now that you’ve thumbed through and read the January 2012 issue of QST cover-to-cover, we’re sure that an article sticks in your mind. So go ahead and cast your vote for your favorite article in the issue. The article with the most votes will receive the Read More
12/16/2011 | ARRL Headquarters to Close for Christmas, New Year’s Holidays

ARRL Headquarters will be closed Monday, December 26 and Monday, January 2 in observance of Christmas and New Year’s Day. There will be no W1AW bulletins or code practice transmissions those days. There will be no ARRL Letter or ARRL Audio News on Thursda Read More
12/16/2011 | The K7RA Solar Update

Solar activity dropped this week, with the average daily sunspot numbers declining more than 39 points to 94.7. It’s been 13 weeks since the average daily sunspot number for the week was that low or lower, when we reported an average of 91.7 in the Septem Read More
12/16/2011 | Surfin’: Where’s Sebastian?

This week, Surfin’ asks “Where’s D08SEM?” and finds him -- along with some cool Mac OS X SDR applications. Read More
12/15/2011 | House-Passed Payroll Tax Bill Includes Amateur Radio Study

The Middle Class Tax Relief and Job Creation Act of 2011 (HR 3630) -- the bill to extend the payroll tax reduction that passed the US House of Representatives on Tuesday, December 13 -- includes among its many other provisions the “Jumpstarting Opportunit Read More
12/15/2011 | NTSB Urges States to Ban Cell Phone Use by Drivers

On Tuesday, December 13, the National Transportation Safety Board (NTSB) recommended that States ban the nonemergency use of all cellular telephones and other “portable electronic devices” (PEDs) by drivers of motor vehicles. This would include hands-free Read More
12/15/2011 | Amateur Radio Balloon Flight Crosses Atlantic, Sets Records

Ron Meadows, K6RPT, and his son Lee -- leaders of the California Near Space Project -- successfully launched an Amateur Radio high altitude balloon on Sunday, December 11 at 4:43 PM PST. The balloon reached a cruise altitude between 105,000 and 115,000 fe Read More
12/14/2011 | Deadline Approaching for Hams to Recommend Updates to Microwave Band Plan

Attention microwavers! An ARRL Ad Hoc Committee has been tasked by the Board of Directors with recommending updates to the ARRL band plans for the amateur bands between 902 MHz and 3.5 GHz. If you are now active on any of these bands or are developing pla Read More
12/13/2011 | ARRL Executive Committee Approves Grant Funding for Two Schools

In December 2011, the ARRL Executive Committee reviewed grant applications for the ARRL’s Education & Technology Program (ETP), awarding instructional resources valued at nearly $2000 to two schools. More than 525 schools across the country have received Read More
12/13/2011 | ARRL Warns Members to be Aware of E-mail Scams

Many ARRL members with arrl.net e-mail accounts have recently received bogus e-mails in a “phishing” attack. These are scams designed to scare people into e-mailing back personal information -- such as user names and passwords -- to the scammer at an unkn Read More
12/12/2011 | Ham Radio in Hollywood: Comedian Tim Allen Stars as Radio Amateur on New TV Show

Tim Allen -- star of Home Improvement, Toy Story, The Santa Clause and Galaxy Quest, just to name a few -- stars in Last Man Standing, an ABC comedy airing at 8 PM (EST) on Tuesday nights. Allen plays Mike Baxter, KA0XTT, a married father of three and the Read More
12/12/2011 | 50th Anniversary of OSCAR 1

On December 12, 1961 the very first Amateur Radio satellite reached orbit. Read More
12/09/2011 | The K7RA Solar Update

What happened to that new “grand minima”? Solar Cycle 24 just keeps rolling along -- for the first seven days in December, there were eight new sunspot groups. December 5 had the largest sunspot coverage over the past week, with a daily sunspot number of Read More
12/09/2011 | Surfin’: Ultralight -- An Appetizing Radio Diet

This week, Surfin’ discovers ultralight radios, which are most definitely not your fathers’ transistor radio. Read More
12/08/2011 | QST Critter Commotion

Organizing 10 years of QSTs is best done with the door closed. Read More
12/07/2011 | New Rules for 60 Meters Have Yet to Take Effect

Last month, the FCC released a Report & Order (R&O), detailing new rules for the 5 MHz (60 meters) Amateur Radio band. These rules have not been published in the Federal Register. In order to be official, the rules must be published in the Federal Registe Read More