06/11/2015 Keysight Technologies (formerly Agilent) has donated software that will augment the feature set of the ARRL Laboratory’s MXA-9020A spectrum analyzer. The donation includes 89600 VSA vector signal analysis software. According to ARRL Lab Senior Test Engineer Bob Allison, WB1GCM, … Continue reading →
06/11/2015 European Space Agency Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, IZ0UDF, who returned to Earth June 11 with crew mates NASA Astronaut Terry Virts, and Russian Cosmonaut Anton Shkaplerov, has set a new record for the longest single space mission by a woman. … Continue reading →
06/11/2015 The winner of the June 2015 QST Cover Plaque award is R. Dean Straw, N6BV, for his article “Don’t Blow Up Your Balun.” The QST Cover Plaque Award — given to the author or authors of the most popular … Continue reading →
06/11/2015 Kids Day is Sunday, June 21! (Don’t be fooled — the incorrect date appears in the “ARRL Amateur Radio Calendar.”) Sponsored by the ARRL and The Boring (Oregon) Amateur Radio Club, Kids Day is a fantastic way to introduce … Continue reading →
06/10/2015 ARRL Field Day, coming up the weekend of June 27-28, often offers an ideal occasion for hams to meet members of the media or the public and to describe the event specifically and Amateur Radio in general. ARRL Media … Continue reading →
06/10/2015 The ARRL has just released a digital edition of The ARRL Extra Class License Manual in Kindle format, in addition to the hard-copy manual. The Kindle edition from Amazon completes the suite of ARRL license manuals available in e-book … Continue reading →
06/09/2015 ARRL President Kay Craigie, N3KN, has told Section Mangers that while promotion and positive publicity about the Amateur Radio Parity Act (HR 1301) are always helpful, the most useful action radio amateurs can take is to contact their members … Continue reading →
06/07/2015 AMSAT has announced that two US Naval Academy-sponsored CubeSats have been assigned OSCAR numbers. BRICsat now will be known as NO-83, and PSAT has been designated as NO-84. OSCAR Number Administrator Bill Tynan, W3XO, made the assignments in response … Continue reading →
06/05/2015 The 2015 Museum Ships weekend gets under way at 0000 UTC on June 6 (June 5 in US time zones) and continues for 48 hours. More than 100 museum ships are expected to be on the air. Most museum … Continue reading →
06/05/2015 For seven days from May 28 through June 3, average daily sunspot numbers dropped from 56.1 the previous week to 34.3. Average daily solar flux barely changed from 97.6 to 97.8 over the same two weeks. But both numbers … Continue reading →