“Before there was social media there was amateur, or ham radio, and it’s going to exist long after social media...
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This reporting week (May 30 to June 5) our Sun was active, with ninenew sunspot groups.One emerged on May 30,...
Imagine for a moment you're a ham radio enthusiast, alone at night, idly working your way through the radio spectrum when you...
In the 1960s, if you were a teenager in the United States, a big part of your life was...
The Earth is in a danger zone right now as we're in the middle of a solar maximum. That was...
Coronal mass ejections from the sun are plasma with magnetic fields. They can collide with Earth’s magnetosphere, causing the auroras...
Many interesting phenomena can be observed in the high frequency radio band including aurora reflections, meteor trail reflections, radio blackouts,...
Numbers stations are a weird phenomenon where odd voices read out long strings of numbers or random codewords to the...
picked up a shortwave receiver known as the “stressless” receiver kit. We aren’t sure if the stress is from building a...
On April 8, 2024, a total solar eclipse will cross parts of the United States. For millions of people along the...
An intense solar event occurred in the early hours of February 6, as a sunspot unleashed a powerful M4-class solar...
Departing sunspot AR3559 erupted Monday morning, Jan 29th (0438 UT), producing a strong M6.8-class solar flare. NASA's Solar Dynamics Observatory recorded the...
Debate about the future of shortwave broadcasting focuses on the correct observation that shortwave listening is no longer a mainstream...
Crosley was a famous name in radio for more than one reason. The National VOA Museum of Broadcasting has a...
If you have software-defined radio hardware and you are only using someone else's software, you are missing out on half...
Of all the rabbit holes we technical types tend to fall down, perhaps the one with the most twists and...
ALPINE — The Big Bend Amateur Radio Club will host a holiday event for area children at Morrison True Value...
Like many people spent a lot of time in the 1970s listening to shortwave radio. While you often think of...
Before the Internet, if you wanted to hear news from around the world, you probably bought a shortwave receiver. In...
Numerous commenters have told the FCC that a proposal to “modernize” the shortwave band is a threat to amateur radio...
The annual Perseids meteor shower is known for its reliable stream of shooting stars, but one DX-er in Finland enjoyed...
Regarded as the best-known and most important of all the insurgent radio stations, today marks the 79th anniversary of the...
A request by the Shortwave Modernization Coalition (SMC) for the FCC to amend its rules to allow fixed, long-distance, non-voice...
Since May, ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® has been reviewing the rules proposed in a petition before the...
The ad hoc group “Shortwave Modernization Coalition” petitioned the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to allow data communications on multiple bands within the...
