Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 431
APRS On the Air Let’s create a new Amateur Radio activity and supporting software that brings the activator-and-chaser game...
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News: Olivia Digital Modes on HF
Greetings Olivia and digital mode operators, GREAT NEWS! WEBSITE UPDATE! Here are the big three new features: Live Olivia...
Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 430
HAMgpt New platform combines an operator’s license, station, location and live band conditions to answer a practical question: “What...
Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 429
Help us save MeshCore We’ve now started a crowd funding campaign, in an attempt to raise the required funds...
Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 428
Empire State Building climbers force NYC FM and TV stations to backup antennas Following protocols, the broadcasters shifted to...
Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 427
This weekend is Field Day Field Day is Ham Radio’s open house. ARRL Field Day site locator Find a...
Coast Guard Cutter Chelan: Biggest, Costliest Coast Guard Vessel of its Era
Take a step back in time to November 26, 1928, and take a look at what was then described...
GERMANY: USAGM Shortwave Operations Return to Lampertheim
Following the recent suspension of Voice of America (VOA) shortwave and medium-wave (AM) transmitters, the U.S. Agency for Global...
Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 426
The Remarkable, but Relatively Unsung Achievement of Integrating FreeDV RADE Into FlexRadio FreeDV RADE is a voice mode that...
Beyond the Sunspots: Understanding 10 Meter Propagation
I have noticed a common theme regarding propagation on the 10 meter band. There is a wide perception that...
A Pileup? What It Is And How To Work One
Welcome to the chaotic, thrilling world of the HF pileup. When a rare station or a Parks On The...
Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 425
Hamilton Auto FT8 Hear, call, exchange, complete, log — automatically. Hamilton QSO One Connect to AllStarLink and EchoLink from...
Brain Health and Parks on the Air
Got my N3ZN Single-Lever Paddle out of storage, along with most of my POTA station. Despite being homeless and...
Select Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 424
Radio Amateur Delay-tolerant Interplanetary Networking Testbed RADIANT brings Delay-Tolerant Networking to Amateur Radio, enabling store-and-forward messaging across disrupted links...
What was your first major receiver?
I started in the ham radio and shortwave listening hobby in 1972. By 1975, this was my first real...
Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 423
Free Field Day CW training and practice The Long Island CW Club (LICW) is pleased to offer focused Field...
Powerhouse History: WLW, W8XAL, WSAI
The photograph, below, captures a compelling moment of technical mastery during the formative years of American broadcasting, set deep...
Dawn of Instant Communication: Legacy of May 24, 1844
On this day in 1844, a quiet revolution in human communication took place. Samuel Morse, the American inventor, sat...
Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 421
Yaesu announces new DR-3X repeater (video) This new hardware offers 85 watts of VHF or 65 watts of UHF...
Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 420
The adventure begins in Xenia: Hamvention 2026 The world’s greatest Amateur Radio event returns to Ohio. W8CI Dayton Hamvention®...
Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 419
Linux kernel drops AX.25 and Amateur Radio subsystem support Unmaintained code under scrutiny by AI generated bug reports. Phoronix...
Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 418
Icom teases X-026 radio to be Revealed at Hamvention Dubbed as a “concept mock-up,” the radio appears to be...
Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 417
ITU Corporation acquires Cushcraft, Hy-gain from MFJ ITU will move manufacturing from Mississippi to a recently purchased facility in...
Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 416
Reverse engineering VARA FM part 1 – Connection request Without the ability to decode messages, how could we possibly...
Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 415
FCC warns licensee on out-of-band transmissions Amateurs are reminded to exercise care when programming non-Amateur frequencies into their VHF/UHF...