On Wednesday, December 23, the Department of Defense (DoD) issued an Instruction concerning MARS, effective immediately. This Instruction gives the three MARS services — Army, Air Force and Navy/Marine Corps — a new focus on homeland security and a new name: Military Auxiliary Radio System. The Instruction is the first major revision to MARS since [...]
Registration remains open through Sunday, January 24, 2010, for these online course sessions beginning on Friday, February 5, 2010: Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Level 1; Antenna Modeling; Radio Frequency Interference; Antenna Design and Construction; Ham Radio (Technician) License Course; Propagation; Analog Electronics, and Digital Electronics.
On Tuesday, December 22, President Barack Obama named Howard A. Schmidt, W7HAS, as the new White House Cybersecurity Coordinator. According to the White House, Schmidt — an ARRL member — is one of the world’s leading authorities on computer security, with some 40 years of experience in government, business and law enforcement and "will have [...]
The ARRL currently has an opening for an Emergency Preparedness and Response Manager to be based at ARRL HQ. The successful applicant will represent the League with governmental and non-governmental emergency and disaster response organizations and partners — primarily at the national level — for planning, continuity and operational purposes.
Radio amateurs are making true advances in the state of the art through antenna experimentation. The most effective effort begins with an idea — and that idea is developed into a workable antenna design. Aided by personal computers and antenna modeling software, today’s reliable antenna solutions move from the drawing board to construction with greater [...]
Periodically, the ARRL’s Atlantic Division hosts a “webinar” — an interactive Web-based seminar, designed to facilitate communication between a small number of presenters and a large remote audience using the Internet. On Wednesday, January 6 at 9 PM EST, ARRL General Counsel Chris Imlay, W3KD, along with attorneys Bob Famiglio, K3RF, and Mike Lazaroff, K3AIR, [...]
"Other than the ionosphere, have you ever deliberately bounced your signal off of something in order to improve your propagation?" That was the question asked during one of our recent ARES nets.
Less than one week after China’s first Amateur Radio satellite — XW-1 — was successfully launched, AMSAT has designated it Hope-OSCAR 68, or HO-68. “Amateur Radio Operators around the world have received beacon signals from XW-1,” said AMSAT-NA OSCAR Number Coordinator Bill Tynan, W3XO. “XW-1 has been coordinated through IARU Amateur Satellite Frequency Coordination Panel. [...]
ARRL Headquarters will be closed Friday, December 25, 2009 and Friday, January 1, 2010 in observance of Christmas and New Year’s Day. There will be no W1AW bulletins or code practice transmissions those days. There will be no ARRL Letter or ARRL Audio Newson Thursday, December 24 and 31. We wish everyone a safe and joyful holiday season [...]
Sunspot activity continued this week; new group 1035 emerged December 14, following group 1034 that appeared December 9. Daily sunspot numbers since December 9 through December 17 have been 13, 13, 13, 12, 14, 28, 38, 30 and 24. Solar flux values have been above 80 since December 15, with the values from Tuesday through [...]
The Midwest VHF/UHF Society frequency measuring test will be held December 28 through 30. The MVUS Frequency Measuring Test is intended to supplement, not replace, the ARRL frequency measuring test. The test will begin at 1500 UTC on Monday, December 28 and will end at 1500 UTC on Wednesday, December 30. Transmissions will be from [...]
So you have been DXing and QSLing for a while and have amassed a pile of envelopes with foreign stamps and never knew what to do with them? You have a DXCC, WAS or some other favorite award and you want to go from plain to snazzy ?
This week, Surfin’ revisits the "Top 10" Amateur Radio Web sites.
The January/February issue of QEX is coming soon, and it is full of theoretical and practical technical articles that you won’t want to miss.
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