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By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOUContributing Editor This week, Surfin’ reveals the mother lode of online map sources. Wednesday evening, the little woman was curious about Betty White’s new television series. I was clueless, so I Googled it. Turns out that the show airs Wednesday nights at 2200 UTC on our TV channel 106, so we stayed [...]
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Registration remains open through Sunday, July 25, 2010, for these online course sessions beginning on August 6, 2010: Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Level 1. Each online course has been developed in segments — learning units with objectives, informative text, student activities and quizzes. Courses are interactive, and some include direct communications with a Mentor/Instructor. Studen… [...]
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The July/August issue of QEX is coming soon, and it is full of theoretical and practical technical articles that you won’t want to miss. QEX is the ARRL’s “Forum for Communications Experimenters.” Published bimonthly, it features technical articles, columns and other items of interest to radio amateurs and communications professionals. The mission of QEX is [...]
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The Amateur Radio Safety Foundation (ARSFI) has announced the availability of RMS Express user software with WINMOR, a new radio-email application for use with the Winlink 2000 network. The WINMOR protocol was introduced at the 2008 ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference in Chicago. The goal of the WINMOR development effort was to create a soundcard digital [...]
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Stations active during ARRL Field Day — June 26-27 — are eligible to receive 100 bonus points for copying the special Field Day bulletin transmitted by W1AW (or K6KPH on the West Coast) according to the schedule below. You must include an accurate copy of the message in your Field Day submission. The Field Day [...]
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In April, the National Hurricane Center (NHC) debuted a new Web site dedicate to hurricane preparedness. The site explains that a lack of hurricane awareness and preparation are common threads among all major hurricane disasters, and that by knowing your vulnerability and what actions you should take, you can reduce the effects of a hurricane [...]
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The ARRL Annual Report for 2009 — now available online and in print — reviews the major events of the year and documents the renewed growth of both the ARRL and the activities of the Amateur Radio Service. In 2009, the ARRL experienced a growth in membership, ending the year with 156,125 members, an increase [...]
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But then, there it was, calling to me as certainly as my mother saying it was time to come in for supper. It was cool white like fine china, about 12 inches long with cobalt blue numbers and letters on one end and the same on the other only the color was a faded black. [...]
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We have received several reports from ARRL members with arrl.net e-mail accounts who have recently been contacted via e-mail asking for personal information, such as user names and passwords. Please be assured that these e-mails are fraudulent attempts at “phishing” and did not originate from ARRL. “This is a very crude attempt at phishing, using [...]
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ARRL Field Day — Amateur Radio’s most popular on-the-air event — is this weekend, June 26-27. Have you registered your Field Day site with the ARRL Field Day Locator Service? First introduced in 2008, the service — an interactive map that helps amateurs or those interested in Amateur Radio find a Field Day site near [...]
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