06/05/2015 Gordon Marshall, W6RR (ex-W6ITA), of Pasadena, California, died on June 2. He was 95. A top contester of a bygone era, Marshall was a Life Member of the ARRL. An entrepreneur, he was a trustee and generous patron of … Continue reading →
06/04/2015 The circumnavigation of another party-type foil balloon from Australia has demonstrated that having one circle the Southern Hemisphere is no fluke. Andy Nguyen, VK3YT, launched his PS-46 balloon, which carried an Amateur Radio payload, on May 25. The balloon … Continue reading →
06/03/2015 The Hurricane Watch Net (HWN) will celebrate its 50th anniverary on the air, June 13-14. HWN members will be using the call sign WX5HWN, operating on 14.325 MHz but with stations active on or near 7.268 MHz as well. … Continue reading →
06/01/2015 This month’s QuickStats poll has been posted! Check the QuickStats page at www.arrl.org/quickstats and answer these questions . . . Have you ever tried to operate on the HF bands from your hotel room when traveling? Have you ever … Continue reading →
06/01/2015 After going silent for a few days, The Planetary Society’s LightSail™ spacecraft has resumed transmitting. A suspected software glitch had caused the satellite to stop sending telemetry back to Earth. The communication issue now out of the way, the … Continue reading →
06/01/2015 WX4NHC, the Amateur Radio station at the National Hurricane Center (NHC) in Miami, reports that it’s tested and ready for the 2015 Hurricane Season, which begins June 1 and continues through November. WX4NHC conducted its Annual Station Test on … Continue reading →
06/01/2015 Traffie Technologies, the Massachusetts-based family business that has pioneered and manufactured the HEX-BEAM line of compact rotatable wire beams, is closing its doors. “This is to inform everyone that we are closing down production of the HEX-BEAM®,” an announcement … Continue reading →
05/30/2015 Astronaut Samantha Cristoforetti, IZ0UDF, now on an International Space Station duty tour that has been extended by about a month, will return to Earth on June 11. Cristoforetti has conducted several Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) … Continue reading →
05/29/2015 The Planetary Society is blaming a software glitch for causing its LightSail-A CubeSat to go dark, but the organization’s satellite team is hoping the situation is temporary and that it can reboot the CubeSat’s onboard computer. In a lengthy … Continue reading →
05/29/2015 This week the average daily sunspot number dropped 36 points to 56.1, and average daily solar flux was down 25.7 points to 97.6. Geomagnetic numbers indicated more stability than the previous week (May 14-20) with average daily planetary A … Continue reading →