07/07/2015 Amateur Radio will be upgraded on August 6 from secondary to primary in the 1900-2000 kHz segment of 160 meters in the US. That’s the effective date of the WRC-07 implementation Report and Order and WRC-12 Order portions of … Continue reading →
07/07/2015 This month’s QuickStats poll has been posted! Check the QuickStats page at www.arrl.org/quickstats and answer these questions . . . • Have you ever purchased something at a hamfest fleamarket that you knew you’d probably never use? • Have … Continue reading →
07/06/2015 Most encyclopedias say that the first transatlantic television transmissions took place via the Telstar I satellite in 1962, but TV images actually crossed the Atlantic in the late 1920s via an Amateur Radio transmitter, according to historical accounts. An … Continue reading →
07/05/2015 The summer’s most popular HF contest — The 2015 International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) HF World Championship — gets under way on July 11 at 1200 UTC and continues for 24 hours. The object of the contest is to … Continue reading →
07/03/2015 Conditions over Field Day weekend turned out to be not bad at all. The expected geomagnetic upset never happened. On June 25-26, the Thursday and Friday before Field Day, the predicted planetary A index for the June 27-28 was … Continue reading →
07/02/2015 The FCC is inviting comments on its recent proposals to authorize Amateur Radio operation on two new bands — an LF allocation at 135.7 to 137.8 kHz (2200 meters), and an MF allocation at 472-479 kHz (630 meters). Amateur … Continue reading →
07/01/2015 Acting with near lightning speed, the FCC has dismissed two petitions for rule making calling for separate amendments to the Part 97 Amateur Service rules. Willison H. Gormly, WD0BCS, of Des Moines, New Mexico, filed both petitions on June … Continue reading →
07/01/2015 It was a meeting of the minds as more than 300 scientists — many of them radio amateurs — met at the University of Washington in Seattle during the week of June 21 for the annual National Science Foundation-sponsored … Continue reading →
06/30/2015 Phillip Groves, N8SFO, has been appointed as ARRL West Virginia Section Manager. Groves, of Beckley, succeeds the late Charles Hardy, WV8CH, of Fayetteville, who died on June 14, apparently as the result of accidental electrocution while working on an … Continue reading →
06/29/2015 The Vintage Radio and Communications Museum of Connecticut (VRCMCT) has donated equipment designed by former ARRL staffer Doug Demaw, W1FB (SK), to ARRL Headquarters for exhibit. One of the most widely published technical writers in Amateur Radio, DeMaw — … Continue reading →