09/27/2016 The official rules for the new ARRL 222 MHz and Up Contest have been released. The contest will debut in August 2017. Participants will attempt to work as many stations as possible on the 222 MHz through 241 GHz … Continue reading →
09/27/2016 ARRL is serving as a catalyst in a nascent campaign — “Ivy + Amateur Radio” — to boost college and university Amateur Radio club interest, membership, and activity. The initiative sprang from a conversation earlier this year between ARRL … Continue reading →
09/26/2016 Mary Cousins, ex-W1GSC, who was the first woman in Maine to obtain an Amateur Radio license, celebrated her 108th birthday on September 20. Now a resident of a care facility in the coastal fishing village of Deer Isle, Cousins … Continue reading →
09/26/2016 ARRL will host a CHIRP Radio Programming webinar on Wednesday, October 19, at 8 PM ET (0000 UTC on Thursday, October 20, in US time zones). This presentation will offer a brief overview of the free, open-source CHIRP software, … Continue reading →
09/23/2016 “Coping with the Solar Minimum” is the topic of the latest (September 22) episode of the “ARRL The Doctor is In” podcast. Listen…and learn! Sponsored by DX Engineering, “ARRL The Doctor is In” is an informative discussion of all … Continue reading →
09/23/2016 Members of the Huntsville Amateur Radio Club (HARC) in Alabama had a role in getting help for a Louisiana cyclist injured in a September 17 group ride in Madison County, Alabama. A representative of the sponsoring Spring City Cycling … Continue reading →
09/23/2016 The Scanning RF Seismograph, a real-time HF propagation-monitoring tool developed by the MDSR Team and Alex Schwarz, VE7DXW, now can show both combined band noise and activity and just band activity. The RF Seismograph, which covers 80, 40, 30, … Continue reading →
09/23/2016 Amateur Radio volunteers went on alert following an afternoon explosion on September 21 at the Aguirre Central Power Generator in Salinas that left some 1.5 million residents of the Commonwealth of Puerto Rico without power. ARRL Public Information Coordinator … Continue reading →
09/23/2016 Sunspot numbers and solar flux were down over our reporting week, September 15-21. Average daily sunspot number was 29.9, down from 50.1 during the previous seven days. Average daily solar flux went down from 88.9 to 83.4. Geomagnetic indices … Continue reading →
09/22/2016 The Pratham satellite, built by students at the Indian Institute of Technology-Bombay, is expected to launch on September 26 onboard the Indian PSLV-C35 mission. Pratham, a 300 × 300 × 300 millimeter satellite with a mass of 10 kilograms, … Continue reading →