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Go to Church on Sept 13th 2025…and Bring an HF Radio!

CHOTA 2025 is nigh! Here in the U.S., Churches and Chapels on the Air is a new concept. I...

Ground-mounted verticals are all the rage these days in portable HF operations. This is particularly true in POTA activations....

The Toupee Fallacy is a logical fallacy in which one thinks something is of poor quality because they only...

If this kind of personal nostalgia article triggers you, consider watching some cat videos on Youtube instead. If you...

If you’re a workbench ham, you like to measure things. Some like to just get a rough cut while...

If you’re a workbench ham, you like to measure things. Some like to just get a rough cut while...

The Shadow radio program was a bit before my time but not my grandmother’s. She told me she would...

The “goose and the gander” idiom is well-integrated into American culture. It means, of course, that what applies to...

SUMMARY: The roiling of the membership over the recent dues increase and annulments of multi-year subscriptions is significant, causing...

Think about how you got enthusiastic toward amateur radio. For me, I was eight years old and it was...

Is amateur radio in the United States dying? The short answer is NO. But it is CHANGING. Here is...

“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain.“ Wizard of Oz (1939) This line from the classic movie,...

No, not really. Here’s actual evidence… In a previous article, I quoted current ARRL CEO David Minster NA2AA from...

Corporate annual reports can be real snoozers to read. Unless you have a specific interest in the contents. A...