It is, ah, not raining here also!

A pointer to part of the definitive and classic Hancock episode, ‘The Radio Ham’.

Painfully hilarious!

On Wednesday, June 20 Spaceweather.com reported the sudden emergence of sunspot AR2715. The sunspot number on that day shot up to 54, and it was 53 the next day. Average daily sunspot number for the reporting week (June 14-20) was 25.7, up from 4 the previous week. Average daily solar flux rose from 69.4 to […]

IARU Welcomes Member-Society for St. Kitts & Nevis

The International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) has welcomed the St. Kitts-Nevis-Anguilla Amateur Radio Society (SKNAARS) as its newest member-society. IARU member-societies on May 28 completed voting on the proposed admission of SKNAARS to the IARU to represent St. Kitts & Nevis.SKNAARS does not claim to represent Anguilla, which is already represented in the IARU by […]

ARES® Continues Move Toward Enhanced Training, Paperless Reporting

KX9X Wins the June QST Cover Plaque Award

The winning article for the June 2018 QST Cover Plaque award is “Get on the Satellites for ARRL Field Day” by Sean Kutzko, KX9X. The QST Cover Plaque Award -- given to the author or authors of the most popular article in each issue -- is determined by a vote of ARRL members on the […]

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QSO Today - Mike Marsh - G1IAR

Mike Marsh, G1IAR, is in love with mastering sound and owes his interest in ham radio to enhancing his professional career in the recording industry

French ham radio statistics 1997 to 2017

The Passion-Radio site has published figures for French amateur radio licenses from 1997-2017 and exam passes from 2010-2017

ZS5 Sprint next Sunday

The ZS5 Sprint is a fun activity to promote contacts between radio amateurs in KwaZulu-Natal and radio amateurs in Southern African countries and will be run from 14:00 to 15:00 UTC on Sunday 1 July 2018

West Kimberley Prison Radio Hour

WIA News reports a remote high-security prison in the Kimberley has created a weekly prison radio program, presented entirely by inmates of the West Kimberley Regional Prison

SolderSmoke Podcast 205

Episode 205 of the amateur radio podcast SolderSmoke is now available

Ofcom consults on updated radio ‘localness’ guidelines

Ofcom is consulting on proposed updates to the ‘localness’ guidelines for local commercial radio broadcasters

Propagation Report from Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP

Hannes Coetzee, ZS6BZP, reports that the solar activity is expected to be at low levels

Foundations of Amateur Radio #159

The Power for your Radio - A question that occurs more often than you might think is one related to powering your radio