French broadcaster RTL has switched off its giant Beidweiler longwave transmitter in Luxembourg. RTL, which used the 234 kHz frequency, was the...
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TWO amateur radio operators helped to bring a search-and-rescue mission to an end after an old maritime distress beacon destined...
Former astronaut Walter Cunningham, who flew into space on Apollo 7, the first flight with crew in NASA’s Apollo Program,...
Following the introduction of the Direct to Full syllabus in July 2022, bookings for the Direct to Full exam begin next week....
For almost 20 years, Steve Galchutt, a retired graphic designer, has trekked up Colorado mountains accompanied by his pack of...
A 500-foot asteroid passing just twice the distance from Earth to the moon was recently the target of radio signals...
Changes to RAC Field Organization | Impact on Contesting Map showing the RAC and ARRL Field Organization in Canada and...
ARRL Straight Key Night (SKN) is January 1, 2023, from 0000 UTC through 2359 UTC. In the US, SKN begins...
If you're a radio fan, or have merely been stuck in a car as day transitions into night, you may...
AMATEUR RADIO OPERATORS around the world heard an Alaskan science facility “chirp” an asteroid. On Twitter, ham radio users published audio and...
Yaesu announces the end of production on two of its models, the Yaesu FTM 400 series, one of the first VHF UHF...
In March 2022, the AMSAT community lost one of our pioneers when Ray Soifer, W2RS, became a silent key. In...
A Vologda court sentenced 61-year-old Vladimir Rumyantsev, who works as a stoker, to three years in prison on charges of...
The RSGB is making plans to celebrate the coronation of King Charles III and the Queen Consort in May 2023. The...
Congressman Bill Johnson (OH-6) introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives (H.R.9670) on Thursday, December 22, 2022, to...
On Wednesday, December 7, 2022, 22 Communication Officers at the Marine Corps Communication-Electronics School (MCCES) in Twentynine Palms, California, became...
Congresswoman Debbie Lesko (AZ-08) introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives (H.R. 9664) on December 21, 2022, to...
A Los Angeles Sheriff's deputy is under investigation after being heard over her radio possibly engaged in sexual activities when...
Up until about a decade ago, an average of 80 to 100 satellites per year were launched into varying orbits....
Ionized meteor trails can reflect radio waves, a phenomenon known as meteor scatter. This has been exploited by amateur radio...
The AMSAT News Service bulletins are a free, weekly news and information service of AMSAT, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation....
If the big one hits, and comms are taken out, these guys are ready to go. The internet's down, the...
If you’ve got a military buddy, you may have heard him spell something out using whole words that begin with...
The CAMSAT XW-4 (CAS-10) satellite was launched into the Chinese Space Station on November 12, 2022 aboard China’s Tianzhou-5 cargo...
On Thursday, November 24, 2022, Thanksgiving evening, MontanaPBS aired a documentary about amateur radio that was appropriately titled, HAM. The...
