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Amateur Radio operator receives National Activist Award

Emery McClendon, KB9IBW, the Founder of Amateur Radio Military Appreciation Day, has been chosen to receive the coveted “Activist Of The Year” Award from Rightonline, and given in recognition of leadership in advancing economic freedom and liberty through modern media Read the Full Article from the SARC

ROS mode development definitely continues

It appears that the author of the new amateur radio digital mode software ROS has had a change of heart, and has reversed his earlier decision to discontinue devlopment work on the project Read the Full Article from the SARC

New world record on 10GHz

The RSGB report that a new world record in distance on 10GHz has been established between the Cape Verde islands and southern Portugal Read the Full Article from the SARC

Ofcom publishes notice on licence exempt devices

Ofcom has published a new document that describes proposed changes to some licence exempt radio services, including underwater radio links Read the Full Article from the SARC

N8M – Detroit Maker Faire

Special event station N8M will be active on the Amateur Radio Satellites and HF this weekend from the Detroit Maker Faire Read the Full Article from the SARC

Eagle Radio Group open day

On the 24 July the Eagle Radio Group held an open day at their venue in Mablethorpe. There were demonstrations on D-Star, WISPR, slow scan TV, HF radio and much more Read the Full Article from the SARC

SOTA activation, Spain

As from this Sunday August 1st, Spain will be active for the first time in the SOTA programme. To celebrate this, a group of radio hams in the NW of Spain will be active from several summits Read the Full Article from the SARC

S21RC ready to operate from Haiti

Fazlay Rabby, S21RC has just received his amateur radio license to operate as HH2/S21RC from Port-Au-Prince, Haiti Read the Full Article from the SARC

ARRL Board Considers Celebrations, Changes and Conferring of Awards at 2010 Second Meeting

The ARRL Board of Directors held its Second Meeting of 2010 July 16-17 in Windsor, Connecticut, under the chairmanship of President Kay Craigie, N3KN. International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Secretary Rod Stafford, W6ROD, and Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) President Geoff Bawden, VE4BAW, were guests of the Board. At the two-day meeting, the Board considered [...]

The K7RA Solar Update

Sunspot activity increased again this week, but on Tuesday and Wednesday — July 27-28 — a stiff solar wind increased Earth’s geomagnetic activity, which is a negative for HF propagation. Sunspot numbers for July 22-28 were 39, 45, 41, 39, 39, 15 and 31, with a mean of 35.6. The 10.7 cm flux was 87.7, [...]

Surfin’: A Town Without Pitney

By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOUARRL Contributing Editor This week, Surfin’ scours the Internet for yet another musical ham.  Two weeks running, I have written here about hams I know who sing or sang for a living. In response, Paul Walcott, WD8H, e-mailed me that the late rock crooner Gene Pitney was a ham, too. That was news [...]

It’s a Bird, It’s a Plane! No, It’s an Asteroid — Asteroid (31531) ARRL, To Be Exact!

John, Paul, George and Ringo are on the list. Mozart, Bach, Beethoven and Brahms — even Frank Zappa and Elvis (but not Madonna). Of course Asimov and Sagan made the cut, Mr Spock, too, but not Captain Kirk. And now ARRL — more precisely, (31531) ARRL — joins this prestigious company as one of more [...]