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09/23/2009 | Special Bonus Section Added to ARRL Ham Radio Licensing Manual
The most common question asked by new radio amateurs is "Now that I have my license, what kind of radio should I get?" The ARRL, in an attempt to help newcomers to Amateur Radio answer that very question, has added a bonus supplement to the A
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09/23/2009 | Newly Elected Section Managers Converge on Newington
This weekend, 12 Section Managers who are new -- or returning after a long absence -- to their post are in Newington for an orientation. The primary purposes of the Workshop sessions are to share ideas and to provide basic administrative, management, lead
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09/22/2009 | Preparations Underway for WRC-12
Approximately 200 participants came together in an ITU preliminary meeting that ended September 16 in Geneva, Switzerland in preparation for the 2012 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-12). The six regional telecommunications organizations -- APT (A
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09/21/2009 | Reflections on My First Dayton HamventionI arrived on Friday afternoon and was amazed at how big the Hamvention was. There were hundreds of commercial vendors in the several indoor arenas and even more private vendors in the outdoor flea market. In addition, there were numerous seminars covering
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09/18/2009 | South African Amateur Radio Payload Reaches Orbit
After several delays, South Africa's SumbandilaSat satellite finally blasted to orbit aboard a Soyuz rocket from the Learn More
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09/18/2009 | The K7RA Solar Update
The STEREO mission (Solar TErrestrial RElations Observatory) Web site shows a new display, where the Sun is visible via an animated image that rotates to show the whole Sun. The small portion on the Sun's far side -- which is not yet visible to the spacec
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09/17/2009 | ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference Next Weekend
ARRL and the Tucson Amateur Packet Radio Group (TAPR) will jointly host the 28th Annual Digital Communications Conference (DCC) September 25-27 i
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09/16/2009 | Alpha Radio Products Now RF Concepts
On September 15, Michael Seedman, AA6DY, announced that his company, RF Concepts, had purchased Boulder, Colorado-based Alpha R
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