The Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard are co-sponsoring the annual Military/Amateur Radio Crossband Communications Test in celebration of the 62nd anniversary of Armed Forces Day (AFD). Although the actual Armed Forces Day is celebrated on the third Saturday in May — May 19 in 2012 — the AFD Military/Amateur Crossband Communications [...]
Fred Kleber, K9VV, has been appointed as Section Manager of the Virgin Islands Section beginning May 1, 2012. Kleber, of Christainsted, is taking the reins from John Ellis, NP2B, who is planning to move out of the Section soon. Ellis has been Section Manager of the Virgin Islands since 1996. Kleber has served as the [...]
Compiled by S. Khrystyne Keane, K1SFAARRL News Editork1sfa@arrl.org This feature — including convenient Web links to useful information — is a concise monthly update of some of the things ARRL is doing on behalf of its members. This installment covers the month of April. More than 1200 radio amateurs respond to a request for comments [...]
The winner of the April QST Cover Plaque award is retired USCG Commander Richard Paton for his article “Radio’s Role in the Titanic Disaster.” Congratulations Richard! The QST Cover Plaque award — given to the author or authors of the best article in each issue — is determined by a vote of ARRL members on [...]
Four new poll questions have just been published on the QuickStats page on the ARRL website. Let your voice be heard! Questions in this month’s QuickStats poll: How do you participate in Field Day? Where do you store your QSL cards? How were you introduced to Amateur Radio? Do you suffer interference from your vehicle’s [...]
The Daily DX is reporting that the 7O6T Yemen DXpedition will start 2100 UTC Monday, April 30 and will continue through 2100 UTC May 15. Yemen currently sits at #5 on DX Magazine’s most wanted list, behind North Korea, Navassa, Bouvet and Heard Island. The ARRL DXCC Desk will review the 7O6T DXpedition’s documentation before [...]
By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOUContributing Editor This week, Surfin’ gets its feet wet with SDR by means of a bevy of online SDR receivers. On the Software-Defined Radio (SDR) front, Tad Cook, K7RA, mentioned PA3FWM’s WebSDR in the K7RA Solar Update on April 13 and I mentioned it here back in June 2008. It is worth [...]
Solar activity revived over the past week, with a big increase in sunspot numbers. On Friday, April 20, the daily sunspot number reached 162; four days later on April 24, the number reached 169. This level of activity has not been seen since last fall, when the daily sunspot number reached 173 on September 16, [...]
In April, the FCC put out a Public Notice, requesting comments regarding a Congressional-mandated study to assess Amateur Radio’s role in emergency and disaster communications and the impact of private land use regulations on the amateur community’s ability to provide such communications. The ARRL asked the amateur community to forward comments directly to the ARRL [...]
For the past 11 years, the US Office of Personnel Management has designated the ARRL to participate in the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC), the annual giving campaign for federal employees. In that time, this campaign for federal government civilian employees, US Postal Service workers and members of the military has generated almost $192,000 for ARRL [...]
Earlier this year, the ARRL and CQ Communications announced that the ARRL will provide support for CQ-sponsored operating awards by the ARRL’s Logbook of the World (LoTW) electronic confirmation system. The WPX Award is the first of the CQ-sponsored awards that LoTW will support. “We had originally planned to introduce this new program in early [...]
NASA is now accepting proposals from US schools, museums, science centers and community youth organizations to host an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact between November 1, 2012 and May 1, 2013. To maximize these radio contact opportunities, NASA is looking for organizations that will draw large numbers of participants and integrate [...]
As part of the ARRL EXPO — part of the 2012 Dayton Hamvention® — the ARRL is pleased to present a plethora of DX activities. Visitors to the ARRL EXPO will see a lot of activities relating to DX, including DXCC card checking and a chance to drop off QSL cards for the ARRL Outgoing [...]
By Gary Hoffman, KB0HContributing Editor I cleaned my shack this morning. Okay, that might not even be physically possible, but I certainly made a serious dent in the clutter. I removed everything that was keeping me from opening my file cabinets. I extracted a bunch of junk from behind them and moved them back so [...]