International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Region 1 Emergency Communications Coordinator Greg Mossop, G0DUB, reported over the weekend that amateur radio...
knows there are at least two things wrong with the cheap antennas you get with most SDR dongles. First, they...
Release Date: July 24, 2021 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's...
On Thursday, July 15, at 10 AM EDT, ARRL Headquarters in Newington, Connecticut, hosted a rededication ceremony, recognizing ARRL’s commitment...
With a population just north of 71,000, the Caribbean island country of Dominica (J7) boasts a modest but active ham...
We don’t normally embrace the supernatural here at Hackaday, but when the topic turns to the radio frequency world, Arthur...
In the second year in which rule waivers were in place for ARRL Field Day, some 4,815 entries were received...
A significant event in the history of technology happened yesterday, and it passed so quietly that we almost missed it. The...
The first Youth on the Air (YOTA) camp for young radio amateurs in the Americas wraps up on Friday in...
Dipoles are a classic builder’s antenna, after all they are usually little more than two pieces of wire and a...
Normally, three weeks prior to the monthly open meeting of the Federal Communications Commission, the agency releases drafts of the...
Release Date: July 17, 2021 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's...
A lot of radio amateurs may have been wondering, “Where did the bands go?” as the first X-class solar flare...
Release Date: July 10, 2021 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's...
Carl Gardenias, WU6D, of Perris, California, is retiring as ARRL Orange Section Manager after serving in the position since 2003....
In a Memorandum Opinion and Order (MO&O) released June 17, the FCC denied a Petition for Reconsideration filed by HobbyKing of a $2,861,128 fine...
The next meeting of the ARRL Board of Directors’ Executive Committee meeting is July 7 at 11 AM EDT. The...
The world’s first wooden CubeSat successfully completed a test flight into the stratosphere in June. WISA Woodsat is constructed using birch plywood...
The Hurricane Watch Net (HWN) activated this morning at 1300 UTC for Hurricane Elsa, which became a Category 1 storm...
An X-class solar flare (R3-moderate) has just peaked! The maximum measured X-ray flux was X1.59 to be precise and the...
Release Date: July 3, 2021 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's...
These days, we are spoiled for choice with regard to SDRs for RF analysis, but sometimes we’re more interested in...
The arrival of LoRa a few years ago gave us at last an accessible licence-free UHF communication protocol with significant...
Release Date: June 26, 2021 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's...
From the 1970's until the Chernobyl nuclear disaster the Soviet's Over the Horizon Radar 'Woodpecker' caused severe interference in the...
