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John, Paul, George and Ringo are on the list. Mozart, Bach, Beethoven and Brahms — even Frank Zappa and Elvis (but not Madonna). Of course Asimov and Sagan made the cut, Mr Spock, too, but not Captain Kirk. And now ARRL — more precisely, (31531) ARRL — joins this prestigious company as one of more [...]
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The ARRL Board of Directors held its Second Meeting of 2010 July 16-17 in Windsor, Connecticut, under the chairmanship of President Kay Craigie, N3KN. International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Secretary Rod Stafford, W6ROD, and Radio Amateurs of Canada (RAC) President Geoff Bawden, VE4BAW, were guests of the Board. At the two-day meeting, the Board considered [...]
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Sunspot activity increased again this week, but on Tuesday and Wednesday — July 27-28 — a stiff solar wind increased Earth’s geomagnetic activity, which is a negative for HF propagation. Sunspot numbers for July 22-28 were 39, 45, 41, 39, 39, 15 and 31, with a mean of 35.6. The 10.7 cm flux was 87.7, [...]
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By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOUARRL Contributing Editor This week, Surfin’ scours the Internet for yet another musical ham. Two weeks running, I have written here about hams I know who sing or sang for a living. In response, Paul Walcott, WD8H, e-mailed me that the late rock crooner Gene Pitney was a ham, too. That was news [...]
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VHF/UHF weak-signal operators across North America are making the final tests on their stations in preparation for the ARRL UHF Contest, coming up the weekend of August 7-8. Most VHF+ weak-signal operation takes place on the two lowest bands of the VHF spectrum — 6 and 2 meters; however, there is a lot of activity [...]
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While the Federal Register may be the ultimate record of the business of the USA’s Executive Branch, it can be a difficult document to navigate. The Register publishes approximately 80,000 pages of documents each year in the form of Notices, Proposed Rules, Rules and Official Documents; this is where all new and amended rules to [...]
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Beginning July 28, those who have dealings with the FCC will have a new tool that the FCC claims will put them “within one click of all the information they want” from the Commission: a new “easy-to-use” Consumer Help Center. “Our new Consumer Help Center makes it easy for consumers to learn about our work [...]
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After a higher than expected run on pins for Field Day this year, the ARRL has ordered more and expects them to arrive next month. “The pins were in stock until just before Field Day, but due to some exceptionally high interest, we were unable to fulfill a few final orders,” said ARRL Product Marketing [...]
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By Gary Hoffman, KB0HARRL Contributing Editor My efforts to set up an APRS station (Automatic Packet Reporting System) had come to a standstill. I had installed a program called UI-View32. It was pretty slick, with volumes of data in its Help file, but there were still plenty of parts of it that I didn’t understand. [...]
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After review of eligibility by the ARRL Ethics and Elections Committee, President Kay Craigie, N3KN, has appointed John Robert Stratton, KE5ISX, of Austin Texas, to serve as Vice Director of the ARRL’s West Gulf Division for the remainder of the current term that expires January 1, 2011. Stratton, an attorney, fills the vacancy created when [...]
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