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09/13/2016 | ARRL Honors Veteran Section Manager Upon Her Retirement

Retiring ARRL Connecticut Section Manager Betsey Doane, K1EIC, was honored on September 10 at the New England Division Convention in Boxboro, Massachusetts, for her many years of service. Read More
09/12/2016 | Lunar-Orbiting Ham Radio Satellite Could Result from NASA Cube Quest Challenge

A NASA Cube Quest Challenge (CQC) team partnered with AMSAT-NA is among the five CQC teams to receive $20,000 each from the space agency as part of a competition that could lead to a lunar-orbiting Amateur Radio satellite. Read More
09/12/2016 | Radio Club of America Announces 2016 Award Recipients and Fellows

Several radio amateurs were among the 2016 Radio Club of America (RCA) award recipients and Fellows. Winners will be honored at RCA’s 107th Banquet & Awards Presentation on November 18 in New York City. The awards spotlight outstanding achievements in ... Read More
09/12/2016 | ARDF Team USA Enjoys Success in Bulgaria with Seven Medals

Fifteen of the best on-foot hidden transmitter hunters in the US are back home after picking up seven medals in the 18th World Amateur Radio Direction Finding (ARDF) Championships and World Cup events. Read More
09/12/2016 | RadFxSat/Fox-1B Launch Now Set for March 2017

AMSAT has announced that the l Read More
09/11/2016 | US House to Act on Amateur Radio Parity Act Bill, H.R. 1301

The US House of Representatives will consider the Amateur Radio Parity Act, H.R. 1301. Read More
09/09/2016 | The October Issue of Digital QST is Now Available!

Start reading the October issue today! Read More
09/09/2016 | The K7RA Solar Update

An interesting discussion of future solar cycles in this week's report. Read More
09/08/2016 | Higher Bands Will Pick Up this Fall, Data Suggest Smaller Solar Cycles Lie Ahead

Propagation guru Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA, says that, while conditions on 12 and 10 meters will pick up as they always do in the fall, F2 propagation on those bands will decline thereafter. Read More
09/08/2016 | The Doctor Will See You Now!

“Coaxial Connectors” is the topic of the September 8 episode of the “ARRL The Doctor is In” podcast. Read More
09/07/2016 | “Frequency Crunch” is ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference Sunday Seminar Topic

“Spectrum (It’s the frequency crunch for real)” will be the Sunday Seminar topic at the ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference (DCC) September 16-18 in St Petersburg, Florida. Read More
09/07/2016 | ARRL September VHF Contest is September 10-12

The ARRL September VHF Contest gets under way on Saturday, September 10, at 1800 UTC and wraps up on Monday, September 12, at 0259 UTC. Read More
09/07/2016 | ISS Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams, KD5TVQ, Breaks Time-on-Station Record

NASA astronaut and International Space Station (ISS) Expedition 48 Commander Jeff Williams, KD5TVQ, and two of his space station crewmates have returned safely to Earth, following Williams’ US record-breaking mission aboard the ISS. Read More
09/07/2016 | Mexican Emergency Communication Net Activates for Newton

The FMRE (Federación Mexicana de Radioexperimentadores) Emergency Communication Net activated as Hurricane Newton, now a tropical storm, approached the Baja California peninsula. Read More
09/06/2016 | Gold! NPOTA Activation Set from Alaska’s Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park

[UPDATED 2016-09-07 @ 2314 UTC] Mark Bowers, VY1MAB, from Whitehorse, Yukon Territory, will activate the Klondike Gold Rush National Historical Park (HP21), for the National Parks on the Air (NPOTA) program. A storm has forced postponement of his trip ... Read More
09/06/2016 | SpaceX Falcon 9 Failure Prompts Postponement of Fox-1Cliff and Fox-1D Integration

As a consequence of the September 1 explosion of a SpaceX Falcon 9 launch vehicle during a “static fire” test, AMSAT has announced that the planned integration of Fox-1Cliff and Fox-1D on the Spaceflight SHERPA platform would be postponed. Read More