Thursday, July 15, 2021

A Message to our Print Subscribers

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July 15, 2021 To our loyal readers, While CQ's digital editions are distributed like clockwork – the first of each month – the print ed...
Tuesday, July 13, 2021

Solar Cycle 25: More Good News

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Another sign of increased solar activity is being reported by spaceweather.com - a decrease in stratospheric cosmic ray levels that appear...

YOTA Camp Under Way in Ohio

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Sam Rose, KC2LRC, getteing campers ready for a foxhunting event at the 2021 YOTA camp in Ohio. (KD8RTT photo via Twitter) The first-ever Yo...

Friedrichshafen "Ham Radio" Show Held Online

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Once again prevented by the Covid pandemic from being held in person, the 2021 "Ham Radio" show in Fried- richshafen, Germany, was...

Ukraine Declares "Russian Woodpecker" Antenna Site a Cultural Monument

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The Duga-1 radar antenna array near Chernobyl. (Photo by Ingmar Runge via Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 3.0, <https://commons.wikimedia.org/ w...

Milestones: Changes at IARU and in Amateur Industry

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New IARU Secretary Joel Harrison, W5ZN (ARRL photo) Former ARRL CEO Dave Sumner, K1ZZ, who stayed on as Secretary of the International Amate...

FCC Finalizes Fine Against Drone Maker

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The FCC has reaffirmed its previous decision to fine drone maker HobbyKing $2.8 million for marketing non-compliant RF equipment and for fai...

R0FK/POLE Polar DXpedition

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R0FK's special QSL card for his North Pole expedition (from RF0K QRZ.com page) Talk about social distancing … Fedor Konyukhov, R0FK, set...

Listen to Recordings of your QSOs

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The free QSO Recorder Indexing Service allows hams who record contest and DXpeditions to share those recordings and for those who make conta...

Shining a Light on the New Solar Cycle

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Sun science "forever" stamps from the U.S. Postal Service (USPS photo) The U.S. Postal Service is highlighting the new sunspot cyc...

Putting Pluto Back on the Air

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W7P special event certificate (courtesy NADXA) Speaking of space…  The Northern Arizona DX Association'sW7P special event last February ...

Satellite Roundup

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 S till speaking of space… we have several satellite news items for you … MO-112 Satellite overlaid on image of SpaceX Cargo Dragon launch...
Monday, June 14, 2021

2023 Bouvet DXpedition in Limbo

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Update: Efforts are under way between the 3Y0J team and the new owners of the Braveheart to allow Nigel Jolly to remain as the ship's ca...

A Kickstart for Cycle 25?

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Solar physicist Scott McIntosh (Nat'l Center for Atmos- pheric Research photo) The solar scientist who's been bucking the tide of pe...

NOAA: Expect Another Active Hurricane Season

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) is predicting another above-average hurricane season in the Atlantic and Caribbea...

A Tale of Two SATERNs

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Among hams, SATERN has long been an acronym for the Salvation Army Team Emergency Radio Network. Now, according to the ARRL, it also stands ...

Latest WSJT-X Release Includes New Q65 Mode

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WSJT-X Q65 screen (from WSJT website) A new version (2.4.0) of WSJT-X, the software suite that includes FT8 and other digital protocols, has...

"Oh, the Humanity!" - CQ DX Editor at Center of New Hindenburg Documentary

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The crash of the Hindenburg on May 6, 1937. N2OO's uncle, Harold Schenck, shot film of the disaster from a different angle.  (US Informa...

SuperDARN Radars Identified as QRM Source on HF

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SuperDARN radar site in Saskatchewan (Photo by Daryl Mitchell via Wikimedia Commons) The ARRL Letter reports that the SuperDARN ionospheric ...

ARDC is Busy With Major Grants

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Amateur Radio Digital Communications, or ARDC, administers the AMPRNet (44) internet domain and recently came into lots of money as a resu...

Recognition for Slow Speed CW Net

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The K1USN Radio Club in Massachusetts has won the 2021 CWOps Award for Advancing the Art of CW, in recognition of its weekly SST, or Slow Sp...

ARRL Staff Changes

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Several staff changes have been announced by the ARRL as a result of the recent retirements of long-time staffers and an ongoing reorganiz...