07/11/2016 Well-known contester and World Radiosport Team Championship (WRTC) competitor, official, and supporter Walter Skudlarek, DJ6QT, of Hirzenhain, Germany, has died. Skudlarek was a member of the CQ Contest Hall of Fame as well as a founding member of the … Continue reading →
07/10/2016 Two veteran International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 (IARU-R1) volunteers were honored at Ham Radio 2016 in Friedrichshafen, Germany, in late June. Christian Verholt, OZ8CY, the former Chair of the Electromagnetic Compatibility (EMC) Working Group and former EMC Advisor … Continue reading →
07/09/2016 NASA astronaut Kate Rubins, KG5FYJ, astronaut Takuya Onishi, KF5LKS, of the Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency (JAXA), and cosmonaut Anatoly Ivanishin of Roscosmos officially joined their Expedition 48 International Space Station (ISS) crew members on July 9 at 0626 UTC, … Continue reading →
07/08/2016 The August edition of Digital QST is now available at http://www.nxtbook.com/nxtbooks/arrl/qst_201608/. ● Build a quad vertical array antenna ● Find out what was new at the Dayton Hamvention® ● Convert an aviation headset for Amateur Radio use ● Learn … Continue reading →
07/08/2016 According to information received from International Amateur Radio Union Region 3 (IARU-R3), the Philippine Amateur Radio Association’s Ham Emergency Radio Operations (HERO) network activated on July 7 at 2145 UTC, as fears arose that super typhoon Nepartak could amplify … Continue reading →
07/08/2016 Special event station W1N will travel from the Texas Motor Speedway to Minneapolis between July 15 and July 24 to highlight the 2016 Solar Car Challenge®. Several teams include students and adult advisors who are radio amateurs who wanted … Continue reading →
07/08/2016 Tad Cook, K7RA, Seattle, reports: The recent zero-sunspot period of June 23 through July 4 ended with the appearance of a single sunspot group (2560) on Tuesday, July 5. Sunspot numbers were 23, 11, and 25, respectively, on July … Continue reading →
07/07/2016 It took Bob Liddy, K8BL, of Mentor, Ohio, nearly 4 decades to achieve Worked All States via satellite and earn WAS Satellite Award #341, although he wasn’t really gunning for the award for all that time. His contacts spanned 38 … Continue reading →
07/07/2016 The FCC information technology staff is continuing to look into why the Universal Licensing System (ULS) Electronic Batch Filing (EBF) system has stopped processing at least some — and perhaps all — Amateur Radio exam session files and applications. … Continue reading →