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01/18/2016 | Bart Jahnke, W9JJ, Named as ARRL Contest Branch Manager
Former ARRL staffer Bart Jahnke, W9JJ, is the League’s new ARRL Contest Branch manager. Jahnke returned to ARRL Headquarters on January 4 after a decade away, which he spent working in the customer service, manufacturing sales and support, and informat... Read More
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01/18/2016 | VP8STI is Battling the Elements and the Pileups on South Sandwich Islands
VP8 DXpedition Co-Leader Paul Ewing, N6PSE, said the VP8STI team is been on the air from Southern Thule Island with three stations, and he expects more to be ready soon. The DXpeditioners arrived on January 17, not without complications. As expected, t... Read More
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01/16/2016 | Outgoing ARRL CEO David Sumner, K1ZZ, Honored with ARRL President’s Award
As both are on the threshold of departing their official positions with the League, ARRL President Kay Craigie, N3KN, presented ARRL CEO David Sumner, K1ZZ, with the ARRL President’s Award. The presentation came during the ARRL Board of Directors’ 201... Read More
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01/15/2016 | Changing of the Guard: Rick Roderick, K5UR, Elected as ARRL’s 16th President
The ARRL Board of Directors has elected ARRL First Vice President Rick Roderick, K5UR, of Little Rock, Arkansas, as the ARRL’s next president. Read More
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01/15/2016 | NASA Control Terminates Spacewalk by Two-Ham Astronaut Team
NASA has prematurely terminated the extra-vehicular excursion (EVA) – or spacewalk – that Astronauts Time Peake, KG5BVI, and Tim Kopra, KE5UDN, had been undertaking. Read More
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01/15/2016 | The K7RA Solar Update
Average daily sunspot numbers and solar flux have been increasing lately. Read More
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01/14/2016 | ARRL President Bestows President’s Award on AMSAT’s Tom Clark, K3IO
The ARRL has honored veteran AMSAT personality and Amateur Radio digital pioneer Tom Clark, K3IO (ex-W3IWI), with its President’s Award. ARRL President Kay Craigie, N3KN, presented the award plaque to Clark at a January 10 meeting of the Potomac Valley... Read More
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01/13/2016 | ARRL President Kay Craigie, N3KN, Concluding Nearly 3 Decades as a League Official
Now completing her third term, ARRL President Kay Craigie, N3KN, will be handing off the baton this week. The ARRL Board of Directors will elect her successor when it meets January 15-16. President Craigie said it was her privilege to serve during the ... Read More
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01/12/2016 | Subcommittee Chair, H.R. 1301 Sponsor Testify on Behalf of Amateur Radio Parity Act
US Rep Greg Walden, W7EQI, and Amateur Radio Parity Act sponsor Rep Greg Kinzinger spoke January 12 in support of the bill when it came up in committee. Read More
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01/12/2016 | ARRL Asks FCC for “Minimal but Necessary Changes” to Correct Reapportioning Error
The ARRL has petitioned the FCC to fix a “shortfall in available RTTY/data spectrum” the regulator created when it reapportioned 80 and 75 meters in 2006. Read More
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01/12/2016 | “Cows Over the World” CW DXpeditions Planned
Tom Callas, KC0W, has announced the all-CW “Cows Over the World” DXpeditions for 2016. All call sign suffixes will contain "COW." The schedule calls for a summer departure to (in this order): American Samoa, Samoa, Tokelau, Solomon Islands, Temotu Prov... Read More
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01/12/2016 | AMSAT Takes to the Water for Space Symposium 2016
AMSAT-NA will be out on the water for its 2016 AMSAT Space Symposium. Read More
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01/12/2016 | Amateur Radio Parity Act HR 1301 to Get House Subcommittee Airing
HR 1301, the US House version of the Amateur Radio Parity Act, will be among four communications-related measures set to for a legislative hearing on January 12. Read More
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01/11/2016 | ARISS Says Commemorative SSTV Event Update May Happen on January 16
Slow-scan television transmissions marking the 15th anniversary of the first Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contacts have now been tentatively rescheduled for Saturday, January 16. Read More
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01/11/2016 | New Section Manager Appointed in Missouri
Cecil Higgins, AC0HA, of Pittsburg, Missouri, has been appointed as ARRL Missouri Section Manager. Read More
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01/11/2016 | UK Astronaut Tim Peake, KG5BVI, Notes Death of Space Oddity’s “Major Tom”
In his Twitter feed, UK/ESA Astronaut and ISS crew member Tim Peake, KG5BVI, has noted the passing of rock legend David Bowie, whose 1969 hit single “Space Oddity” was covered in space by Canadian Astronaut Chris Hadfield, VA3OOG/KC5RNJ. Hadfield also ... Read More
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