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11/30/2011 | The ARRL 10 Meter Contest: Get On While the Bands Are Hot!

Ten meters -- in case you haven’t heard, it’s alive in a big way! That means that the ARRL 10 Meter Contest -- coming up the weekend of December 10-11 -- is going to be the one of the best we’ve seen in years! During this event, many propagation modes wil Read More
11/29/2011 | AMSAT Announces End of OSCAR 51 Mission

According to AMSAT, the popular OSCAR 51 satellite has reached the end of its mission. Read More
11/29/2011 | 2012 Malpelo DXpedition to Be Extended

The HK0NA DXpedition to Malpelo -- an island located approximately 235 miles from Columbia’s Pacific coast -- is scheduled for early 2012. Organized by the DX Radio Amateur Club (DXARC) out of Columbia, the DXpedition boasts an international team of 16 op Read More
11/29/2011 | Charles Kaiser, KD8JZR, Named Dayton Hamvention® Assistant General Chairman

On November 21, 2012 Dayton Hamvention® General Chairman Mike Kalter W8CI, announced that Charles Kaiser, KD8JZR, would take over as Assistant General Chairman of the largest hamfest in the US. Kaiser is replacing Josh Long, KD8BVD, who stepped down due t Read More
11/28/2011 | FCC Commissioners to Discuss Medical Micropower Networks in 413-457 MHz Band

In their regular meeting on Wednesday, November 30, the four FCC Commissioners will hear from the Commission’s Office of Engineering and Technology (OET) regarding amending Parts 2 and 95 of the Commission’s Rules. In a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPR Read More
11/28/2011 | Hams Listen to Mars Science Laboratory Signal

Amateurs have received 10 GHz signals from the Mars Science Laboratory. Read More
11/28/2011 | The K7RA Solar Update

Recently, I mentioned recently that some of the sunspot numbers released by NOAA didn’t seem right. I just got word from Mike Husler at NOAA that data posted recently -- like that record-breaking day when the sunspot number hit 220 -- was wrong. The corre Read More
11/28/2011 | A Ham's Night Before Christmas Video

The famous Christmas poem with an Amateur Radio twist. Read More
11/26/2011 | Youth@HamRadio.Fun: W0EEE Kicks off Youth Month on TWiT’s Ham Nation

A few months ago, Bob Heil, K9EID, founder of Heil Sound, Ltd, and Gordon “Gordo” West, WB6NOA, and others teamed up with This Week in Tech (TWiT) to bring us Ham Nation, a fantastic podcast designed for hams of all skills, ages and niches that is all abo Read More
11/25/2011 | Surfin’: Tracking the Dead Zone

This week (and next), hams can participate in an International Space Station experiment to test a spacecraft propulsion technology’s effects on RF. Read More
11/24/2011 | Amateur Radio Quiz: Forming Attachments

Critical to almost all aspects of successfully making contacts are the contacts -- or rather, the connections between contacts -- that allow electrons to scurry back and forth (and back and forth) carrying on our conversations. Pin down each question and Read More
11/23/2011 | The K7RA Solar Update

Not much in the way of solar excitement this week, except there are many sunspots, but the solar activity in terms of flares or coronal mass ejections is low. The overlapping (by one day) average sunspot numbers in this bulletin declined 21 points to 124. Read More
11/22/2011 | Fall Section Manager Election Results

ARRL members in New Mexico, Tennessee, and Michigan will have new Section Managers, beginning January 1, 2012. Members in Kansas also re-elected their Section Manager in a balloted race that concluded when ballots were counted and verified at ARRL Headqua Read More
11/22/2011 | When Brutal Storm Slams Alaska, Hams Provide Critical Communications

Cold, windy winter storms are nothing new to Alaska, “the Last Frontier.” But even infrastructure built to withstand some of the harshest conditions can fail. As a storm pummeled the small, isolated villages along the Bering Sea on November 8, it knocked Read More
11/22/2011 | The ARRL Needs Your Help to Protect Our Amateur Radio Spectrum

The third edition for 2011 of Spectrum Defense Matters -- a newsletter aimed at keeping ARRL members updated on issues related to the protection of Amateur Radio frequencies -- was recently released on the ARRL website. This newsletter covers both domesti Read More
11/22/2011 | Reach for the Top in the ARRL 160 Meter Contest

While Solar Cycle 24 is making the high bands the focal point for HF operators, 160 meters -- often called “Top Band” -- is still chock-full of DX. There’s no better time to explore this fun and exciting band than the ARRL 160 Meter Contest, running the w Read More