Filers Seek Extension on Shortwave Petition. ARRL to…

[Updated 7/31/2023] Since May, ARRL  The National Association for Amateur Radio® has been reviewing the rules proposed in a petition before the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) from the “Shortwave Modernization Coalition” (SMC). The ARRL Laboratory…

Find Me on APRS to WIN This Radio,…

Day 2! I am beaconing APRS as KC5HWB-5 and the first person to walk up to me, after finding my location, wins this radio. Special thanks to R&L for sponsoring and supplying, in part, this…

ARRL and NASA Team Up to Help Teachers

A radio experiment held on July 26, 2023, to decode a slow-scan TV (SSTV) message sent via the ham radio station on the International Space Station (ISS) was successful.   The image was received by…

Find Me on APRS to WIN This Radio,…

The adventure begins! I am beaconing APRS as KC5HWB-5 and the first person to walk up to me, after finding my location, wins this radio. Special thanks to R&L for sponsoring and supplying, in part,…

Freedom of speech

Facebook Bowed to White House Pressure, Removed Covid Posts Internal Meta emails say pressure from Washington was behind a decision to take down posts attributing pandemic to man-made virus https://www.wsj.com/articles/facebook-bowed-to-white-house-pressure-removed-covid-posts-2df436b7 https://www.telegraph.co.uk/world-news/2023/07/28/facebook-deleted-covid-virus-manmade-posts-pressure-biden/ Email from Nick Clegg…