08/11/2016 The website for the 3Y0Z Bouvet DXpedition planned for early 2018 is now open. Bouvet is the second most-wanted DXCC entity. The website details the vast DXpeditioning experience of the 3Y0Z team members. 3Y0Z plans to be active on … Continue reading →
08/10/2016 In a July Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) in WT Docket 16-239, the FCC proposed to revise the Amateur Service Part 97 rules in response to the ARRL’s so-called “Symbol Rate” Petition for Rule Making (RM-11708), filed in … Continue reading →
08/10/2016 Students attending Space Camp at the US Space & Rocket Center in Huntsville, Alabama, will be treated to an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact with Astronaut Kate Rubins, KG5FYJ, who is onboard the International Space … Continue reading →
08/04/2016 Let the conspiracy theories resume! Alaska’s High-Frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) facility will reopen in 2017. The sprawling facility now is under the ownership of the University of Alaska Fairbanks (UAF), and the UAF Geophysical Institute is preparing … Continue reading →
08/03/2016 At its July 2016 meeting, the ARRL Board of Directors approved revisions concerning the management and governance of its National Traffic System™ (NTS) program. In response, some NTS™ participants have proposed to form a new organization with the stated … Continue reading →
08/03/2016 Amateur Radio Newsline has announced that 17-year-old Skyler Fennell, KD0WHB, an ARRL member from Denver, Colorado, is the 2016 Bill Pasternak, WA6ITF, Memorial Young Ham of the Year (YHOTY). The recent Denver School of the Arts honors graduate and … Continue reading →
08/02/2016 Members of the Great South Bay Amateur Radio Club (GSBARC), headed by Mike Sartoretti, KC2SYF, have obtained a permit from the National Park Service to operate from President’s Park — The White House (DZ10) — for the ARRL National … Continue reading →
08/02/2016 Danish Ham-Cyclist Thomas Andersen, OZ1AA, now is in North Africa and expects to be in Europe soon, on the last leg of his “Cycling the Globe“ bicycle journey. He anticipates being back home in Denmark within a few months. … Continue reading →
08/01/2016 This month’s QuickStats poll has been posted! Check the QuickStats page at www.arrl.org/quickstats and answer these questions . . . ● Have you ever built an RF power amplifier from a published design, a kit, or your design? ● … Continue reading →
08/01/2016 [UPDATED 08-01@2033 UTC] “X” marks the spot! Greene County officials announced today that Hamvention® will be moving to the Greene County Fairgrounds in Xenia, Ohio, after 52 years at Hara Arena, news outlets report. That’s about 16 miles east of … Continue reading →