Wednesday, February 7, 2018

Reminder: CQ Hall of Fame Nominations Due March 1

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Nominations are now open for the CQ Amateur Radio, Contest and DX Halls of Fame, with a deadline of March 1, 2018. The CQ DX Ha...
Wednesday, January 31, 2018

Beta-Testing for Bringing CQ Magazine’s WAZ Award together with ARRL's Logbook of the World is On-going

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A joint update from ARRL and CQ...   Newington, CT and Hicksville, NY – January 31, 2018 – Beta testing for bringing CQ magazin...
Tuesday, January 30, 2018

ARRL Board Backpedals on Proposed Changes

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Faced with an avalanche of criticism from members, donors and major clubs across the country, the ARRL board of directors in January decide...

Leadership Shakeup in Newington

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ARRL Chief Executive Officer Tom Gallagher, NY2RF, announced his retirement, effective March 2, after only two years in the League's to...

ARRL Changes DXCC Rules; Kosovo Added to List

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As radio amateurs in Kosovo began a celebration of ten years of their nation's independence, the ARRL Map of Kosovo (Courtesy CIA Wor...

Hamvention® 2018 Theme: Serving the Community - Plus Site Updates

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The Dayton Amateur Radio Association (DARA) has announced that the theme for this year's Dayton Hamvention® will be "Amateur Ra...

Searching for Peer-Reviewed Scientific Ham Radio Articles

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HamSci Ham radio operators have contributed to advances in both science and engineering since the start of the hobby. Many of these ac...

ARRL Director Testifies Before Senate Committee on Parity Act

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ARRL Hudson Division Director Mike Liscenco, N2YBB, testified before the U.S. Senate's Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee...

Milestones: DX Hall of Famers K3LP, G3NUG, SK

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Two members of the CQ DX Hall of Fame became Silent Keys in January…   David Collingham, K3LP (SK) at his home station. (Photo courtesy...

New Technician Class Question Pool Released

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The National Conference of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC) has released the new Element 2 question pool from which all U.S. Tech...

Four New Ham Satellites in Orbit

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AMSAT's Fox-1D cubesat was successfully launched from India in mid-January. Designated as AMSAT-OSCAR 92 (AO-92), it went into gener...

A Final Visit to Hara Arena?

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The main hall of Hara Arena in its better days (CQ photo) There is a video making the rounds on YouTube of a "tour" of the no...

ARRL Humanitarian Award Goes to All Hams in Puerto Rico and US Virgin Islands

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The 4096 licensed amateurs in Puerto Rico and 204 hams in the US Virgin Islands (as of 12/31/17, per AH0A.org) will all share the ARRL'...

W1YW Receives Patent for Cloaking Technology

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It might not quite be Harry Potter's invisibility cloak … but then again, it might be. The ARRL Letter reports that the U.S. government...

VLF "Quantum Radio"

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It sounds like science fiction, but researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are combining digitally-modu...

WSPR Beacon On Air from Antarctica

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Germany's Neumayer III Antarctic Research Station (via Wikimedia Commons) It is well-known that radio propagation around the nort...

6 Meters, 160 and More in Germany

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(Via Wikipedia) Speaking of Germany, regulators there have extended the temporary authority of amateurs there to operate on 6 meters th...
Friday, January 12, 2018

Update: ARRL Revises Proposed Changes to Articles of Association and By-Laws

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The ARRL Executive Committee is scaling back proposed changes to its Articles of Association and By-Laws after a release of their preli...