06/10/2015 The ARRL has just released a digital edition of The ARRL Extra Class License Manual in Kindle format, in addition to the hard-copy manual. The Kindle edition from Amazon completes the suite of ARRL license manuals available in e-book … Continue reading →
06/09/2015 ARRL President Kay Craigie, N3KN, has told Section Mangers that while promotion and positive publicity about the Amateur Radio Parity Act (HR 1301) are always helpful, the most useful action radio amateurs can take is to contact their members … Continue reading →
06/07/2015 AMSAT has announced that two US Naval Academy-sponsored CubeSats have been assigned OSCAR numbers. BRICsat now will be known as NO-83, and PSAT has been designated as NO-84. OSCAR Number Administrator Bill Tynan, W3XO, made the assignments in response … Continue reading →
06/05/2015 The 2015 Museum Ships weekend gets under way at 0000 UTC on June 6 (June 5 in US time zones) and continues for 48 hours. More than 100 museum ships are expected to be on the air. Most museum … Continue reading →
06/05/2015 For seven days from May 28 through June 3, average daily sunspot numbers dropped from 56.1 the previous week to 34.3. Average daily solar flux barely changed from 97.6 to 97.8 over the same two weeks. But both numbers … Continue reading →
06/05/2015 Gordon Marshall, W6RR (ex-W6ITA), of Pasadena, California, died on June 2. He was 95. A top contester of a bygone era, Marshall was a Life Member of the ARRL. An entrepreneur, he was a trustee and generous patron of … Continue reading →
06/04/2015 The circumnavigation of another party-type foil balloon from Australia has demonstrated that having one circle the Southern Hemisphere is no fluke. Andy Nguyen, VK3YT, launched his PS-46 balloon, which carried an Amateur Radio payload, on May 25. The balloon … Continue reading →
06/03/2015 The Hurricane Watch Net (HWN) will celebrate its 50th anniverary on the air, June 13-14. HWN members will be using the call sign WX5HWN, operating on 14.325 MHz but with stations active on or near 7.268 MHz as well. … Continue reading →
06/01/2015 This month’s QuickStats poll has been posted! Check the QuickStats page at www.arrl.org/quickstats and answer these questions . . . Have you ever tried to operate on the HF bands from your hotel room when traveling? Have you ever … Continue reading →
06/01/2015 After going silent for a few days, The Planetary Society’s LightSail™ spacecraft has resumed transmitting. A suspected software glitch had caused the satellite to stop sending telemetry back to Earth. The communication issue now out of the way, the … Continue reading →