“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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RAF Air Cadets are running the ever-popular Blue Ham Radio Communications Exercise, on the 60m band, between the 17 and...
Coronal mass ejections from the sun are plasma with magnetic fields. They can collide with Earth’s magnetosphere, causing the auroras...
Amateur radio operators from the Parkersburg Amateur Radio Klub set up stations at Parkersburg South High School Monday to monitor...
While most of us carry cell phones that have GPS and other location services, they require a significant amount of...
Generally, the biggest problem a new ham radio operator will come across when starting out on the high frequency (HF)...
A ham radio pileup is when one station is calling CQ and many stations are answering them. This makes it...
The real action in the world of ham radio is generally in the high frequency bands. Despite the name, these...
Years ago, ham radio operators more often than not had land, and usually there weren’t any restrictions on what kind...
The FCC issued a 60-day waiver to allow amateur radio data transmissions at a higher baud rate than normally allowed,...
Solar protons reached the moderate S2 threshold today for the second time this solar cycle. Moderate S2 solar radiation storms...
PODCAST: This Week in Amateur Radio Edition #1271 Release Date: July 8, 2023 Here is a summary of the news...
The RSGB has released two further Convention 2022 presentations. In the first, Noel Matthews, G8GTZ provides an introduction to the challenges...
SOS Radio Week 2023 starts at midnight on the 1 May and concludes at midnight on the 31 May. It...
Release Date: April 1, 2023 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's...
Eight Sea Cadets from RCSCC Quinte, the Belleville Sea Cadet Corps were part of 28 cadets from across Ontario on...
With a UHF antenna, it is easy to rotate a directional antenna to find the bearing to a transmitter. But...
Release Date: November 26, 2022 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's...
The RSGB is hosting the Transatlantic Centenary Tests 2022 on the HF bands for the month of December 2022. Unlike...
The 10 meters band is opening for the last 10 days as the sunspots are above 100. I am sure...
Electronics Notes describes how to build an HF dipole antenna for the amateur radio bands It is easy to build,...
Sometimes when you need a component, the best way to get it is by building it yourself. did just that,...
IARU Monitoring System (IARUMS) Region 1 newsletter says in July, like every month for many years, Over The Horizon Radars...
There are many ways to test HF antennas ranging from simulation to various antenna analyzers and bridges. However, nothing can...
IARU Region 1 reports the DARPA Ouija program plans to use satellites to monitor the ionosphere The Defense Advanced Research Project Agency...