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via Hackaday: Carnarvon’s Decommissioned NASA Satellite Dish Back In Service After 40 Years

The OTC Station 29.8 meter dish at Carnarvon, Australia, in need of a bit of paint. (Credit: ABC News Australia)...

via the ARRL: DXCC Application Processing Caught Up

DXCC® application processing is back to typical processing times. In October, we reported that the ARRL DXCC® System had been...

via Hackaday: AA Battery Performances Tested, So Get The Most For Your Money

has a video in which a wide variety of AA cells are analyzed and compared in terms of capacity, internal...

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via Hackaday: Is a Cheap Frequency Standard Worth It?

In the quest for an accurate frequency standard there are many options depending on your budget, but one of the...

via the ARRL: Dennis Motschenbacher, K7BV, Silent Key

Former ARRL and Yaesu employee, World Radiosport Team Championship competitor, and award-winning radio amateur Dennis Motschenbacher, K7BV, has become a...

via Hackaday: Remotely Controlled Vehicles Over Starlink

Modern remote control (RC) radios are capable of incredible range, but they’re still only made for line-of-sight use. What if...

Handie-Talkie or Walkie-Talkie?

In ham radio, we often use Handie-Talkie or HT to describe a compact, handheld transceiver. My first exposure to the term Handie-Talkie was when...

The Decline in ARRL Membership and Market Share, 2001-2023

With the publication of the 2023 Annual Report by the ARRL, we now have two more years of membership and amateur license...

via the ARRL: Ham Radio Operators Serving During California Firestorms

As the firestorms across Southern California continue to threaten millions of residents, trained amateur radio operators are serving critical volunteer...

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via Hackaday: Making Sure Your Patch Cables Are Ready for RF Work

How do you know that your patch cables are good? For simple jumper wires, a multimeter is about all you...

Look What You Can Do With Ohm’s Law

My career in radio broadcast engineering has been aided tremendously by an understanding of Ohm’s Law, the brick and mortar...

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via Hackaday: Rethinking Your Jellybean Op Amps

Are your jellybeans getting stale? thinks so, and his guide to choosing op-amps makes a good case for rethinking what...

via Amateur Radio Daily: Fram2, SpaceX Plan SSTV Event from Polar Orbit

Fram2 and SpaceX are planning an SSTV event to be transmitted from a Dragon spacecraft carrying 4 astronauts over the...

via the ARRL: FCC Upholds Record $34,000 Forfeiture Against Amateur Licensee

The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) assessed a record $34,000 forfeiture against an amateur radio licensee for “willfully and repeatedly operating...

Walters State offers youth HAM Radio Technician/License classes (Tennessee)

Youth 17 and under can take Walters State’s Amateur HAM Radio Technician class for free. For those 18 and over,...

Harvey Laidman (W8DX), Director on ‘The Waltons’ and ‘Matlock,’ Dies at 82

Harvey Laidman, a veteran TV director who helmed multiple episodes of such series as The Waltons, Scarecrow and Mrs. King, the original Matlock and 7th...