02/28/2017 The 43rd annual Eastern VHF/UHF/Microwave Conference will take place Friday through Sunday, April 21-23, at Baymont Inn and Suites, 20 Taylor Street, Manchester, Connecticut — just a few miles northeast of Hartford. Take Exit 63 off I-84. Registration before … Continue reading
02/28/2017 Pointing out that World Radiosport Team Championship 2018 (WRTC 2018) in Germany is only about 500 days away, the event’s all-volunteer Organizing Committee reports that while many necessary tasks are out of the way, much more work remains. So … Continue reading
02/28/2017 Xenia High School has announced that it will cancel classes on Friday, May 19, so students there can attend the opening day of Hamvention. The largest Amateur Radio gathering in the US will take place in Xenia for the … Continue reading
02/28/2017 The 10th SpaceX International Space Station cargo resupply mission delivered investigations to study human health, Earth science, and weather patterns last Thursday. It also carried a new Ericsson 2-meter handheld radio to replace one that failed a few months … Continue reading
02/26/2017 Past ARRL Midwest Division Director Lew Gordon, K4VX, of Hannibal, Missouri, died on February 25. He was 87. Although he had been suffering from cancer, Gordon had remained active on the air until his death. Licensed in 1947, Gordon … Continue reading
02/24/2017 Two satellites with Amateur Radio transponder payloads have been selected for future NASA launches. AMSAT reports that the TJREVERB CubeSat, developed by students at Thomas Jefferson High School for Science and Technology in Alexandria, Virginia, will carry a 435/145 … Continue reading
02/24/2017 Dan Ringer, K8WV, will become West Virginia’s Section Manager starting on March 1. He has been appointed to succeed Phillip Groves, N8SFO, who is stepping down for personal reasons after serving since July 2015. Ringer, an attorney who lives … Continue reading
02/24/2017 At 0124 UTC on February 22 Australian Space Weather Services issued a geomagnetic disturbance warning for February 22-24. “The effect of a high speed solar wind stream from a recurrent coronal hole is expected to raise geomagnetic activity to … Continue reading
02/23/2017 The March/April 2017 issue of QEX will be arriving at mailboxes soon. In this issue . . . • David M. Drumheller, K3WQ, explains how to model antennas made from angle stock, wires cages, tape measures and other unconventional conductors. … Continue reading
02/23/2017 The just-concluded run of ionospheric investigations conducted from Alaska’s High Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) observatory — quite likely the most powerful HF transmission facility in the world — revived the latent short-wave listener (SWL) lurking within most … Continue reading