The recent announcement of a pending 3-month DXpedition to activate Crozet Island (FT5W) in 2022 – 2023 has generated enthusiasm...
Year: 2021
Were it not for the thin sheath of water and carbon-based life covering it, our home planet would perhaps be...
Most of you will have experienced RF interference problems of one sort or another over the years. Many will have...
Throughout history, people have devised ways to send information across long distances. For centuries we relied on smoke signals, semaphores,...
CF3BP will be operating from the York region near Toronto until 12 December 2021. It will mark the anniversary of...
Release Date: November 13, 2021 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's...
Perhaps the second most famous law in electronics after Ohm’s law is Moore’s law: the number of transistors that can be...
I’ve always been interested in small-scale energy harvesting projects. After all, it seems like the almost ideal “something for nearly...
On the occasion of the Christmas season, Raymond PA5DX, Wijnand PD8DX and Ramona PD9YL will activate three special callsigns: PA21XMAS, PD21SANTA and PD22HNY The...
Starting in the 1920s and through the ’60s, almost every broadcast engineer was a licensed amateur radio operator. That has...
If you are under a certain age, you might not know the initialism VTVM. It stands for vacuum tube voltmeter....
Release Date: November 6, 2021 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's...
DARC describes how a case of interference in the Primary amateur radio 40m band, by an AM broadcast station in...
Best known for arranging amateur radio contacts between students and astronauts, Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) has...
The Verge reports that Microsoft has reversed its decision to remove a key feature from its upcoming .NET 6 release,...
China’s Harbin Institute of Technology has applied for IARU Coordination of the ASRTU-1 CubeSat. Among other capabilities, the satellite will...
To say the Heathkit name is well known among Hackaday readers would be something of an understatement. Their legendary kits...
On Monday, NASA announced that the Hubble Space Telescope's science instruments were in an extended shutdown after problems appeared in late October....
3M has issued a “Stop Use and Inspection Notice” for the 3M™ DBI-SALA® Nano-Lok™ Self-Retracting Lifeline with Anchor Hook. The...
What a week we are having! Hello Solar Cycle 25! Sunspot region 2891 (which is directly facing Earth!) produced a...
Gerry Hull, W1VE/VE1RM, reports that he is still hoping to be able to operate remotely as VY1AAA from Northern Territories...
The solar flare produced Type II and IV radio sweeps which was a sign that the event is eruptive and...
The 3Y0J Bouvet Island DXpedition team says that with its first deposit on its contract to have the SS Marama provide transportation to Bouvet,...
The federal government is accepting applications until November 10 for a telecommunications specialist to work at the FCC’s high-frequency direction...
Release Date: October 30, 2021 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's...
