09/14/2015 [UPDATED: 2015-09-14 @ 2045 UTC] Information is still incomplete on Amateur Radio’s response to the ongoing wildfire emergency in California, but ARES volunteers in Amador County supported communications at a Red Cross shelter that’s housing evacuees from the Butte wildfire … Continue reading →
09/14/2015 When Pope Francis visits the US in late September, Amateur Radio special event stations will mark the occasion. The Pope is scheduled to visit the US from September 22 until September 27. Six Papal Visit Amateur Radio special event … Continue reading →
09/14/2015 Despite adverse Antarctic winter weather, the VI0ANZAC special event made it on the air over the August 29-30 weekend. Poor propagation hampered the operation, but 56 contacts made it into the log. The operation was part of the WIA … Continue reading →
09/12/2015 [UPDATED 2015-09-10 @ 1353 UTC] Some ARRL servers will undergo routine maintenance from 0000 UTC until 0700 UTC on Sunday, September 13 (Saturday evening on September 12 into Sunday morning on September 13 in US time zones). Dates and times … Continue reading →
09/12/2015 Two radio amateurs — European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, KG5GCZ, Soyuz commander and Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, RN3DT — plus Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov, arrived back on Earth on September 12 from the International Space Station (ISS). … Continue reading →
09/11/2015 The new fall semester at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Massachusetts, heralded not only the resumption of classes but a new antenna tower for the WPI Wireless Association (WPIWA), the home of W1YK. The new tower replaced an … Continue reading →
09/11/2015 Nobel Laureate Joe Taylor, K1JT, the developer of the popular WSJT “weak-signal communication” software suite is advising users to avoid what he called “unauthorized” versions of his software. He said problems could result by using these builds on the … Continue reading →
09/11/2015 Australia’s Amateur Radio Experimenters Group (AREG) has invited all radio amateurs interested in HF digital voice communication to take part in the FreeDV HF Digital Voice QSO Party over the September 12-13 weekend. The Wireless Institute of Australia’s VK100ANZAC … Continue reading →
09/11/2015 The winner of the September 2015 QST Cover Plaque award is Murray Greenman, ZL1BPU, for his article “FSQ: Fast, Simple QSO.” The QST Cover Plaque Award — given to the author or authors of the most popular article in … Continue reading →
09/11/2015 The October Edition of Digital QST – our annual DX issue — is now available! • Read about the incredibly popular 2015 Navassa Island DXpedition. • Take a look at Amateur Radio in Cuba. • Improve your DX skills … Continue reading →