2024 ARRL Field Day Results Published
Results are published, and the numbers are in. They paint a picture of a very active 2024 ARRL Field...
Monthly Archives: November 2024
Rare California Island to be Activated for Armed Forces Day, First Time in 53 Years
On Armed Forces Day, May 1971, 53 years ago, two amateur operators working as WZ6SNI, activated San Nicolas Island,...
Amateur Radio Activated for Late Season Hurricane
A rare November hurricane made landfall in western Cuba as a Category 3 storm Wednesday and continued to move...
RSGB launches its 2025 Construction Competition
The RSGB has launched its Construction Competition for 2025. Entries to this annual competition will again be judged online...
RSGB Contest Club to enter World Wide Award 2025
The RSGB Contest Club is excited to announce that the second World Wide Award event will be taking place...
Watch more great RSGB 2024 Convention content
The RSGB has released some more great content from its recent Annual Convention. In its ‘Discussion with the Board’...
RSGB represented at hybrid IARU R3 Conference
The 19th International Amateur Radio Union Region 3 Conference was hosted by the Thailand national society in Bangkok and...
146/147MHz NoV extension agreed by Ofcom
Ofcom has agreed to the RSGB request to extend the 146/147MHz NoV for a further year. It is available...
via Hackaday: Few Things Are Cheaper than This Antenna
As far as hobbies go, ham radio tends to be on the more expensive side….
via Hackaday: Flirting With Kessler: why Space Debris Physics Make it Such an Orbital Pain
Picture in your mind a big parking lot with 131 million cars on it. Now…
via Hackaday: Amazon Receives FAA Approval for MK30 Delivery Drone
It’s been about a decade since Amazon began to fly its delivery drones, aiming to…
via Amateur Radio Daily: Special Event Celebrates Father of Wireless Communication, Jagadish Chandra Bose
Special event station AU2JCB will be paying homage to the Indian scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose…
via Hackaday: Solve: An ESP32-Based Equation Solving Calculator
We’re suckers for good-looking old-school calculators, so this interesting numerical equation-solving calculator by caught…
Amateur Radio Newsline Report 2454 for Friday November 8th, 2024
– RADIO AMATEURS RESPOND TO DEADLY FLOODS IN SPAIN – AWARD FOR USE OF WIRELESS IN WEATHER PREDICTION –...
ARRL Opening Late on Friday, Nov. 8 and Closed on Veterans Day, Nov. 11
ARRL® The National Association for Amateur Radio® has two closures coming up for our headquarters in Newington, Connecticut: ARRL...
E1444: Best Handheld Ham Radio Accessories on Amazon | Top HT Accessories
Following up on my Best HT of 2024 video, I found some of the same radios on Amazon, but...
V73WE Majuro Atoll. From DXNews.com
Janusz, SP9FIH will be active as V73WE from Majuro Atoll, IOTA OC – 029, Marshall Islands, 29 November –...
Hurricane Rafael – Storm Updates
Tuesday, November 5, 2024, 11:00 AM Eastern Update: The following information is from the Hurricane Watch Net: The Hurricane...
HRWB 222 – Disaster Prep with Thomas K4SWL and Josh K7OSH
In this episode we catch up with our good friend and show regular Thomas Witherspoon, K4SWL, to find out...
via Hackaday: Turning a Quansheng Handheld Into A Neat Desktop Transceiver
The Quansheng UV-K5 is a popular handheld radio. It’s useful out of the box, but…
Meet the ham radio enthusiasts who help keep the New York Marathon running smoothly
‘If the phones are down, the hams are up.’
via Hackaday: PC Floppy Copy Protection: Vault Corporation Prolok
In the 2020s we’re used to software being readily accessible, and often free, whether as-in-beer…
via Hackaday: KolibriOS: The Operating System That Fits on a 1.44 MB 3.5″ Floppy Disk
While most operating systems are written in C and C++, KolibriOS is written in pure…
via Hackaday: The Piezoelectric Glitching Attack
Many readers will be familiar with the idea of a glitching attack, introducing electrical noise…
ICQ Podcast Episode 442 – Weekend Projects
In this episode, we join Martin Butler M1MRB, Dan Romanchik KB6NU, Caryn Eve Murray KD2GUT, Edmund Spicer M0MNG, and...