Festive Callsigns PH25XMAS and PH26HNY Return to the HF Bands
Celebrating 5 Years of Holiday Spirit on the AirNow with an AI-Powered Award System! As the Christmas season approaches,...
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Confirming K0NR Does Have HF Equipment
A few days ago, someone told me that a rumor is circulating that I don’t own any gear capable...
Field Day: Season to Taste
This weekend is the ARRL Field Day, a great opportunity for individual hams, small groups, and radio clubs to...
Weak-Signal Performance of Common Modulation Formats
At first, I was just looking around on the web for some simple Rules of Thumb that compare the...
Chasing States
Sometimes, I just need a reason to get on the air. Specific operating goals can help with this, whatever...
VP2V/K0NR: Another Slacker DXpedition
Operating from countries outside the US can be a lot of fun. I just completed another Slacker DXpedition, this...
Manna80 and other Special Event Stations
You may wish to add these to your calendarWe will publish a report in The Communicator’s next issue.I would...
Hams meet Marines
A special event station from The NetherlandsThis is an HF activity on January 23 from PA25MC, which will be...
Erroneous Prepper Frequency Lists
Many “emergency frequency lists” showing up on the internet are a hodgepodge of frequencies scraped from various sources and...
Field Day Plans Really About Relaxation for Area Ham
WESTERVILLE, MD – Local amateur radio operator Mark Willets shared his elaborate field day plan but didn’t share his...
via Hackaday: A New Chinese Radio Breaks Cover, is it Worth it?
Scanning the firehose of new electronic kits and modules coming from the usual Chinese suppliers…
Via the RSGB: Remember to call in to the CHOTA stations on Saturday
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VP6WR – On air at Pitcairn (and current frequencies of operation)
I arrived yesterday (5th September) and have erected the DXCommander. The BTV is waiting until…
via Hackaday: A Simple But Effective Receiving Loop Antenna
There’s a joke in the world of radio that all you need for a HF…
Short wave – long term (New Zealand)
“Before there was social media there was amateur, or ham radio, and it’s going to…
via the RSGB: Exercise Blue Ham is taking place this week
RAF Air Cadets are running the ever-popular Blue Ham Radio Communications Exercise, on the 60m…
What I Heard During the Solar Event
Coronal mass ejections from the sun are plasma with magnetic fields. They can collide with…
Parkersburg South campus draws students, ham radio operators into orbit for solar phenomena (West Virginia)
Amateur radio operators from the Parkersburg Amateur Radio Klub set up stations at Parkersburg South…
via HACKADAY: Automatic Position Reporting Over HF Radio
While most of us carry cell phones that have GPS and other location services, they…
via HACKADAY: HF In Small Spaces
Generally, the biggest problem a new ham radio operator will come across when starting out…
Working a Ham Radio Pileup
A ham radio pileup is when one station is calling CQ and many stations are…
Skywarn Recognition Day – 2020
December 5, 2020 from 0000z to 2400z SKYWARN™ Recognition Day was developed in 1999 by the National Weather Service...