As cheap microcontrollers have given us an impressive range of test equipment trinkets to play with, it’s easy to forget...
Year: 2024
There’s an old joke that they want to send an exploratory mission to the sun, but to save money, they...
Opinion The oldest functional off-Earth space hardware? Well, that is a great question for those into pub quizzes, aka bar trivia....
For those of us devoted to keeping an older vehicle on the road, the struggle is real. We know that...
In this edition: * The Space Age, Morse Code and STEM Innovation + ASRTU-1 Designated ASRTU-OSCAR 123 * CubeSatSim Kits...
Applying solder paste to a new custom PCB is always a little nerve-racking. One slip of the hand, and you...
Release Date: November 23, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's...
This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio. For the full version please...
On Tuesday, November 19, ballots were counted at ARRL Headquarters for the ARRL South Carolina Section Manager election that was...
Tap or click the link below to download this week’s news script News script for 24 November 2024 (MS Word...
If you’ve ever wondered what goes on in the ground facilities of a satellite TV operation, you could go banging...
SpaceX’s Starship is the most powerful launch system ever built, dwarfing even the mighty Saturn V both in terms of...
Solar activity was lower this reporting week, November 14-20, withthe average daily sunspot number down from 141.6 to 99.3, and...
The ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology is a tremendously successful advocacy for inspiring youth, and it is growing significantly....
How do you collect a lot of data about the ionosphere? Well, you could use sounding rockets or specialized gear....
For serious high-voltage plasma, you need a serious transformer. from Plasma Channel is taking his projects to the next level,...
Fabian Kurz (DJ5CW), creator of Learn CW Online, recently announced the 2025 52 Week Ham Challenge. The challenge consists of...
We’re not very far into the AI revolution at this point, but we’re far enough to know not to trust...
A thermal camera is a very handy tool to have, and wanted to try out the Thermal Master P2 for...
The National Weather Service (NWS) will be hosting our annual SKYWARN Recognition Day on Saturday, December 7th. The La Crosse NWS office...
Dear Member, At the 2024 ARRL Annual Meeting held in January, the Board of Directors unanimously voted to approve the...
It’s easy to use electricity — solar-generated or otherwise — to desalinate water. However, traditional systems require a steady source...
knows that real diodes you can buy don’t work exactly like we say they do. That’s actually pretty common. We...
In this week’s Here’s to You Kid, we revisit a teenager who turned a hobby into a way of helping...
Imagine this. A young person comes to you wanting to get started in the electronic hobby. They ask what five...
