The current generation of USB-powered soldering irons have a lot going for them, chief among them being portability and automatic...
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ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® has released the logo and theme for this year’s ARRL Field Day, June...
ARRL Ham Radio Open House is a national event being hosted by local amateur radio clubs in April to coincide...
Geomagnetic field activity is expected to be at minor storm levels for March 18, and then from March 27 and...
Momentum is building for ARRL’s Ham Radio Open House — an amateur radio event for clubs to put their most...
FR4 is FR4, right? For a lot of PCB designs, the answer is yes — the particular characteristics of the...
Gerald E. “Gerry” Murphy, K8YUW, passed away on February 25, 2025. He was 88 years old, and the founder of...
The recipients of the 2025 Dayton Hamvention® Awards were announced on March 11, 2025. “The selection process was highly competitive,...
Big-name tube amplifiers often don’t come cheap. Being the preserve of dedicated audiophiles, those delicate hi-fis put their glass components...
In an ideal world, devoid of pesky details like contact resistance and manufacturing imperfections, you would be able to double...
Spaceweather.com is reporting "A Hole In The Sun's Atmosphere" thatshould reach Earth on March 9 and 10. Solar activity has...
LoRa gear can be great for doing radio communications in a light-weight and low-power way. However, it can also work...
In late January 2025, 17 students and staff members from Las Animas High School (LAHS) in Colorado visited the Deep...
A new museum will be opening in Huntsville on Saturday. Located on Pratt Avenue between Memorial Parkway and Church Street,...
A Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) associated with a filament eruptionbecame visible on February 26 at 1448 UTC. Model analysisdetermined this...
We’re seeing peak conditions from Solar Cycle 25 just in time for the ARRL International DX SSB Contest. It gets...
We hear a lot about how ham radio isn’t what it used to be. But what was it like? Well,...
Although the Earth’s magnetic field is reliable enough for navigation and is also essential for blocking harmful solar emissions and...
It is easy to forget that many technology juggernauts weren’t always the only game in town. Ethernet seems ubiquitous today,...
Ever been at a party and landed in a heated argument about exactly where the International Space Station (ISS) is...
Like many pieces of lab equipment, oscilloscopes are both extremely useful and rather intimidating to a fledgling user. Unlike a...
Election results have been finalized in the ARRL Iowa Section. Barry Buelow, WØIY, received 283 votes, defeating incumbent Leilia Garner,...
Steve Schickel was a young high school student in the late ’80s and was introduced to amateur radio through his...
Robert “Bob” Buus, W2OD, passed away on February 18, 2025. He has served as the ARRL Northern New Jersey Section...
With Solar Cycle 25 still at peak conditions, and several popular contests this time of year, there have been some...
