Visit the place where the Voice of America began
The Voice of America’s Bethany Relay Station sits alone in a field along busy Tylersville Road in northern Cincinnati, at the end of a long driveway. Few take the time to investigate its purpose. Why does this mammoth, government-funded art deco monument still remain?
Amateur radio on BBC Radio Wiltshire
Nobby Styles G0VIG tweets that the Rockall 2022 Dxpedition MM0UKI/p planned for June will feature on BBC Radio Wiltshire on Friday, April 22
Antarctic ham radio station active for Children's Day May 5
The Japanese Antarctica Research Expedition(JARE) amateur radio station 8J1RL is conducting 'Special Operation of Children's Day' May 5, where elementary, junior high, and high school students in Japan get priority
Amateur radio featured on Canadian TV
Canada's CTV News reports on a Saskatoon man who says ham radio lets him make connections around the world
NZART 60 m Licence update
The latest NZART (New Zealand Amateur Radio Transmitters Society) News Bulletin, Infoline # 450, reports on the current situation as regards 5 MHz / 60 m in the country
Spain's young radio hams to attend YOTA Camp
Spain's national amateur radio society URE has announced it's intention to participate in this year's Youngsters On The Air (YOTA) camp
Turkey's radio amateurs promote the hobby to scouts
The Aydin Branch of the Turkish Radio Amateurs Association (TRAC) attended the weekend camp at the Scout House of the CampFire Scouting and Sports Club in Shahnali Neighborhood to explain all about amateur radio
Communicate when everything fails
Germany's DARC reports on the 'Communicate when everything fails – communication in a catastrophe' panel discussion held April 20
KE6ZGP Bryan Herbert
Ham radio stuff, scanner and shortwave topics at KE6ZGP blog
F.A.R.C.E.
Friends & Amateur Radio Communications Enthusiasts
The 2BD beam antenna for 20 meters
Antennas/Delta loop
A light portable 2 element Delta beam antenna for 14 MHz. It is basically a two element delta loop wire antenna made for portable usage providing good directivity and a 4.2 dBd gain
Solar activity is intensifying
The sun unleashed another X-class solar flare today, causing a deep shortwave radio blackout over southeast Asia and Australia
Emergency radio service participates in statewide exercise
Members of the Huron County Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) unit will gather at Veterans Memorial Lake Park on Saturday to test their abilities and equipment
Hamfest celebrates radio culture in Sonoma and beyond
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1943.3 miles QSO in FM 10 meters frequency 29.600 MHz
KP4NYC reports a very interesting RF propagation opening between Puerto Rico and Canada gave the opportunity for two ham radio operators to exchange signal report of 5/9
Hamvention returning to Greene County after nearly three years
Greene County is just a month away from welcoming back the world’s largest amateur radio show for the first time in almost three years
NASA Astronaut-Ham Colonel Douglas Wheelock To Appear In Pennsylvania April 6
The Murgas Amateur Radio Club (MARC), K3YTL, an ARRL-affiliated club in Wilkes-Barre, Pennsylvania, will present two appearances by NASA Astronaut Colonel Douglas Wheelock on April 6, 2022. The events are being held in cooperation with NASA, the University of Scranton, and Misericordia University. Colonel Wheelock, now retired, was selected by NASA in 1998 and has accumulated more than 178 days...
ARRL Power Outage Scheduled Saturday April 9
A power outage that will enable utility pole maintenance near ARRL’s headquarters in Newington, Connecticut, is scheduled for Saturday, April 9, 2022. The local power company completing the maintenance anticipates the ARRL building will lose power for approximately 8 hours, from 7 AM to 3 PM Eastern time. While there may be a brief interruption to online, network services, ARRL has backup gener...
World Amateur Radio Day is April 18
World Amateur Radio Day (WARD) is April 18 and is celebrated worldwide by radio amateurs and their national associations, which are organized as member-societies of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU).
It was on this day in 1925 that the IARU was formed in Paris. American Radio Relay League (today, ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio) co-founder Hiram Percy Maxim was its fir...
ARRL Employment Opportunities
ARRL is seeking candidates for job opportunities at its headquarters in Newington, Connecticut. Available positions include Director of Information Technology, Public Relations & Outreach Manager, Social Media Strategist, and others.
ARRL Human Resources Manager Luci Goodwin explained that some of the jobs are brand-new positions, established to help advance the association's ongoing digital tra...
Bob Rose, KC1DSQ, and Bob Glorioso, W1IS, Win the March 2022 QST Cover Plaque Award
Kuwait - KARS
Kuwait Amateur Radio Society
AnyRig A Flexible Digital Mode Interface
Technical Reference/Sound Card Radio Interfacing
This project uses an inexpensive Teensy microcontroller as the core of a flexible interface that provides a high-fidelity sound card and VOX functions for controlling the radio.The interface firmware supports variable VOX delay, CW and RTTY keying via audio (such as is available from Fldigi), and RTS and DTR control of any keying function, all via a single USB connection to the PC.
IOTA News from the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club
Weekly IOTA News - compiled by Andreas, DK5ON of the Deutscher Amateur Radio Club
WWFF activities
WWFF, World Wide Flora and Fauna
Scientists hope to broadcast DNA and Earth’s location for curious aliens
'Even if the aliens are short, dour and sexually obsessed,' the late cosmologist Carl Sagan once mused, 'if they’re here, I want to know about them.'
ARISS contact is scheduled with students at Bellefontaine High School, Bellefontaine, Ohio, USA
This will be a direct contact via Amateur Radio allowing students to ask their questions of Astronaut Kayla Barron, amateur radio call sign KI5LAL
SolderSmoke podcast 236 available
Bill Meara M0HBR / N2CQR has released edition 236 of the amateur radio SolderSmoke podcast
Amateur radio in Moroccan newspaper
Morocco's French language newspaper The Opinion published a story titled 'Amateur radio: An exciting and little-known hobby that resists the advent of digital'
Octogenarian radio ham making solo voyage across Pacific
83-year-old radio amateur Kenichi Horie JR3JJE is using ham radio during his solo journey across the Pacific in his yacht the Suntory Mermaid III
Learn Morse Code as a language
Operating Modes/Morse code/Learning Morse Code
A review of the most popular and traditional methods to learn morse conde and a different method that foreseen to learn 100 most common words in CW
Top Amateur Radio Websites - Issue 2212
The 6CL6-807 Transmitter, A 160 Meter Antenna Hybrid Design, SmallDV FreeDV for Raspberry Pi, EA2CW Nanokeyer, SW-3B QRP CW RTX, FreeDV - Digital Voice for HF bands, Ionospheric Propagation of Radio Waves, Ukrainian Amateur Radio League UNGO, Ham Radio Equipment The Basics, QRP Transceiver for 15m,
Measuring Electromagnetic Fields
Robin Kearey writes on Hackaday about measuring Electromagnetic Fields (EMF) with just an Arduino and a piece of wire
Ham radio at Science Fair
The Cyprus Amateur Radio Society (CARS) participated in the 2022 sCYence Fair, organized by the Cyprus Institute, on April 15-16 at Skali, Aglantzia, in the Nicosia Region
Extended hours for National Voice of America Museum during 2022 Hamvention
The National Voice of America Museum of Broadcasting in conjunction with the West Chester Amateur Radio Association announce expanded hours for the museum during the 2022 Dayton Hamvention
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