03/18/2016 Solar indicators were lower this week, while geomagnetic indicators were higher. Compared to the previous seven days, average daily sunspot numbers in our reporting week (March 10-16) were down 12.7 points to 51.7, and average daily solar flux was … Continue reading →
03/17/2016 Special event stations in Russia will be on the air until June 16 as part of the international scientific-educational radio marathon called “Inventors of Telecommunications,” established by the Russian Geographical Society and supported by radio clubs and Amateur Radio … Continue reading →
03/17/2016 Former ARRL Headquarters staffers Ellen White, W1YL, and Bob White, W1CW (SK), and their son Jim, K4OJ (SK) were the first inductees into the Florida Contest Group (FCG) Hall of Fame, in honor of their lifetime of service to … Continue reading →
03/17/2016 ARES teams from five Florida counties took part in a February 24 exercise at the St Lucie Nuclear Power Plant on Hutchinson Island in Jensen Beach. The plant is required to hold a exercise every 2 years to test … Continue reading →
03/16/2016 Tom Medlin, W5KUB, host of the weekly “Amateur Radio Roundtable” video webcast and radio program, is hoping to make ham radio media history. Medlin announced this week that he’s working with the Heard Island VK0EK DXpedition to have the … Continue reading →
03/16/2016 ARRL is now on Instagram as @arrlhq. Instagram is a social networking app made for sharing photos and videos. Similar to Facebook or Twitter, everyone who creates an account has a profile and a news feed. When you post … Continue reading →
03/15/2016 The winner of the March 2016 QST Cover Plaque award is “A Modular 40 Meter CW Transceiver with VFO” by Dr Jack Purdum, W8TEE, Farrukh Zia, K2ZIA and Dennis Kidder, W6DQ. The QST Cover Plaque Award — given to … Continue reading →
03/15/2016 In February, ARRL announced it had established an agreement with RFinder, the creator of a web and app-based directory of Amateur Radio repeaters worldwide, to be its preferred online resource of repeater frequencies. RFinder has now announced that through … Continue reading →
03/14/2016 Well-known former QSL manager for DX stations and a past manager of the W3 QSL Bureau Mary Ann Crider, WA3HUP, of Duncannon, Pennsylvania, has died after a period of failing health. An ARRL member, she was 91 and had … Continue reading →
03/14/2016 The International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 (Europe/Africa) Monitoring System (IARUMS) reports a spate of over the horizon (OTH) radar signals on various Amateur Radio HF bands — exclusive and shared. Many of these signals are being heard outside … Continue reading →