Solar activity continues to weaken, with average daily sunspot numbers dropping nearly 69 points to 72.3, and average daily solar flux down nearly 36 points to 98.8.
On Wednesday the predicted solar flux on Friday through Sunday, June 27-29 (Field Day weekend) was 105, 110 and 115, but on Thursday those numbers were revised downward to 100, 105 and 105. Predicted planetary A index for those date…
American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources
Iroquois County to withdraw from joint dispatch group
WATSEKA — The Iroquois County Board voted in May to leave ICOM, the emergency dispatching group that formed 14 years earlier as a joint effort between the city of Watseka, Iroquois County and the Iroquois County Emergency Telephone System Board.
Read more on Paxton Record
Learning experience: Beaconhouse 'blending learning' college opens
At first, the college would offer FSc pre-medical, FSc pre-engineering, ICS, ICom and FA. Master's and bachelor level programmes will be introduced next year. In the first phase, 14 college campuses would be established: eight in Lahore, two in Allama …
Read more on The Express Tribune
Vietnamese fisherwoman gets free legal aid in suit over Chinese attack
All of the equipment was out of order, including an internal communications system (Icom), a global positioning system (GPS), and a fish finder. The deck of the boat and personal belongings of the crew members were covered in mud. The ceiling of the …
Read more on Tuoitrenews
The QST iOS app was recently updated, but the ARRL has been notified by the app vendor that a serious defect has been discovered that may cause the app to stop functioning.
ARRL is in discussions with the vendor to alleviate the problem. Until a solution has been found, however, members are urged to avoid updating their QST iOS apps.
This issue does not impact QST Android app users.
American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources
Effective July 1, the ARRL is upgrading its website SSL (Secure Socket Layer) certificate in an effort to keep up with industry standards.
This upgrade only affects HTTPS (secure) pages on the ARRL website, including the e-store checkout pages, any pages that accept donations, or pages that allow amateurs to join the ARRL or renew their memberships. As a result of this upgrade, users running Win…
American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources
This 335 foot broadcast tower at 5831 Rosebud Lane, Sacramento, CA 95841 bears the broadcast antennas of 25 kW KKDO-FM on 94.7 MHz, 15 kW K22FR translator on…
Check out these Ham Radio images:
GAP Titan DX
Image by Paul L McCord Jr
This is the assembly of my GAP Titan DX at our new house on August 27th and 28th 2011.
A bill with bipartisan support has been introduced in the US House of Representatives that calls on the FCC to apply the “reasonable accommodation” three-part test of the PRB-1 federal pre-emption policy to private land-use restrictions. HR.4969, the “Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2014” was introduced on June 25 at the request of the ARRL, which worked with House staffers to draft the proposed le…
American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources
ＮＨＫの海外向け国際放送ですが、季節によっては国内でも受信できます。ＶＸ－８で受信。
Video Rating: 0 / 5
Some audio frequency modulation this time. This synth is based on four Schmitt-trigger NAND gate oscillators.
I plan out my Ham Radio sound interface between my iPhone or iPad to my Icom HT for 2M SSTV. This can also be used for PSK-31. This video was shown on Ham Na…
Video Rating: 5 / 5
Another Atco’s Collections video – Oh well, the end of hamfest season in my area is done. But, last Sunday I did find some nice scores. Got two 8-track playe…
Maxim Memorial Station W1AW has announced its 2014 Field Day bulletin schedule. Any Field Day station W1AW Bulletin can earn 100 bonus points for copying the special Field Day bulletin transmitted by W1AW or K6KPH during Field Day weekend, June 28-29. The Field Day bulletin must be copied via Amateur Radio. An accurate copy of the message is required to be included in your Field Day submission….
American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources
Our Skywarn logo merchandise shows your pride in being a storm spotter or storm chaser. Logo used in accordance with NOAA guidelines.
List Price: $ 4.99
Price: [wpramaprice asin=”B00KBMJ670″]
[wpramareviews asin=”B00KBMJ670″]
Related Skywarn Products
NASA ISS Ham Radio Project Engineer Kenneth Ransom, N5VHO, said NASA Astronaut Reid Wiseman, KF5LKT, may be on the air for ARRL Field Day from the International Space Station (ISS) June 28-29.
“I have received a response from Wiseman that he is willing to try and work some stations on Saturday,” Ransom said on June 23. “Pass times begin very soon after the start of Field Day.” Wiseman would use …
American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources
Keedox® DVB-T USB TV RTL-SDR FM+DAB Radio Tuner Receiver Stick Realtek RTL2832U+R820T
Specifications:
Item name：USB DVB-T stick with FM&DAB
Interface：USB 2.0 Standard
Support system: Windows XP/2000/Vista/7
Input therminal:75Ohm DIN
Receiving Frequency:
48.25-863.25MHz Tuning Range
CORDM&FEC
Fully DVB-T Compliant
2K or 8K FFT Size
Bandwidth:6/7/8 MHz Auto Select
De-Multiplexing
Engine: Hardware
Stream capture: PES&TS
A/V forma
List Price: $ 15.99
Price: [wpramaprice asin=”B00IM2K4RC”]
[wpramareviews asin=”B00IM2K4RC”]
Glenn Munro aka “The Roaming Gnome” is a member of the NWS Volunteer Sky-warn Sky Spotters Program, and spends many hours Volunteering to help alert those who are in the path or possibly in…
The annual “Alexanderson Day” transmission from the World Heritage Grimeton site in Sweden, using the vintage Alexanderson alternator on 17.2 kHz will take place Sunday, June 29 at 0900 UTC (SAQ will start tuning at about 0830 UTC) and again at 1200 UTC (SAQ will start tuning at about 1130 UTC). An SAQ transmission will take place on July 2 at 1430 UTC (SAQ will start tuning at about 1400 UTC, …
American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources
In this video I show the result of AM demodulation with a DSP floating point pipeline. Follow my work on Twitter: http://twitter.com/#!/jeriellsworth Faceboo…
Video Rating: 5 / 5
Part 2 – I show the progress of a homebew Software Defined Radio(SDR) or Direct Conversion receiver (DC). IQ signals now being generated correctly, but harmo…
Video Rating: 4 / 5
American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources
This was one of the wide number of pile-ups managed by the TO2FH team. This one was formed by Japanese colleagues in 20m essentially.
Video Rating: 5 / 5
DXpedition to Märket Reef and Aland Islands was a test drive of field day and camping equipment. Total of 1057 QSOs were made on five bands on SSB, RTTY and …
Ham Radio: Simple, efficient, proven HF antenna design! http://www.sciencewriter.net.
Video Rating: 0 / 5
This is a 10 minute PREVIEW of the 60 minute DVD available from ARVN. It introduces you to the new Digital Voice modes being used in Amateur Radio.
Several states, counties and municipalities have issued proclamations recognizing the value of Amateur Radio to the greater community. Such proclamations often tie in with ARRL Field Day, which is June 28-29.
American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources
This is my first video on YouTube! I show off my Argent Data Systems ADS-SR1 Simplex Repeater and key up the local repeaters I’m active on.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
World Radiosport Team Championship 2014 (WRTC-2014) will benefit from an ARRL Foundation grant. WRTC-2014 announced what it called “a significant financial grant” on June 22. The grant will help to support WRTC-2014’s public relations effort to use the event to promote Amateur Radio to the general public. An international competition involving 59 teams of radio contesters, WRTC-2014 will take p…
American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources
Video Rating: 0 / 5
RTL-SDR, SDRConsole simultaneously Using PSK31, JT65, RTTY and USB Voice (with room to spare for two more modes) SDRConsole v2.2, Digital Master 780, Ham Rad…
Video Rating: 0 / 5
A few nice Ham Radio images I found:
APRS Tracker Internals
Image by petehoffswell
Internal shot of Tiny Tracker
Video taken from Loveland and Johnstown Colorado june 9th 2009. Colorado Amateur Radio Emergency Services Skywarn net was activated as a tornado warning went…
Amateur Radio = Bad.
Video Rating: 3 / 5
Reception of AIS with RTLSDR and decoding with AISMON. The OpenCPN used for the display of the vessels on the map.
Video Rating: 4 / 5
RTL-SDR Panoramic Spectrum Analyzer. Панорамный анализатор спектра на основе RTL_POWER и DVB-тюнера за 10 баксов. Разработчик: Бадло Сергей Григорьевич H-pag…
This is the unit of Sir Moises Jacobo from Masbate, the ICOM IC-2100H that has NO Received and now restored to its Normal Reception… Test unit were tested …
Video Rating: 5 / 5
Amateur Radio’s history, public service role, satellite program, utilization of computer and digital technology, and even its relationship to the Common Core education standards are on the forum menu Friday and Saturday at the ARRL National Centennial Convention. With ham radio notables such as Riley Hollingsworth, K4ZDH, Martti Laine, OH2BH, Carole Perry, WB2MGP, Gordon West, WB6NOA, and Joe T…
American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources
IEEE at my college helped me fund this little project. It’s an SDR transceiver for the ham bands. I purchased it in kit form. I’ll be sure to post some more …
https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?v=275746529272583&set=o.527420327338054&type=2&theater شاهد الفيديو بالصوت.
Video Rating: 5 / 5
The daily sunspot number rose dramatically this week on June 13 when it increased to 276, but two days later it was back below 100. The resulting weekly average for June 12-18 (141) was actually down 2.3 points from the previous seven days. Average daily solar flux was down 11.7 points to 134.7.
Predicted solar flux has weakened lately, and for the near term flux values are predicted at 105 on J…
American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources
Test Empfang mit Funkscanner “Stabo XR 100” (Yupiteru 7100) auf Kurzwelle 3853 khz USB Wetterfax (Deutscher Wetterdienst) und 4581 khz RTTY Wetter Fernschrei…
Commodore sx64 decodifica chiamata generale di un radioamatore.
Video Rating: 0 / 5
The annual ARRL® Field Day is touted as the largest disaster communications exercise in the world. Each year thousands of amateurs in North America working with clubs, a group of friends, or as individuals, take to the fields with thousands of dollars worth of equipment. But what does it take for this effort to be successful and stress free?
Read More
American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources
Check out these ARRL images:
Split Rock ARA Field Day 2007
Image by bigtowers20
Split Rock Amateur Radio Association ARRL Field Day 2007
Horseshoe Lake, Roxbury Township, NJ
Split Rock ARA Field Day 2007
Image by bigtowers20
Split Rock Amateur Radio Association ARRL Field Day 2007
Horseshoe Lake, Roxbury Township, NJ
The FCC’s recently announced revisions to the Part 97 Amateur Radio rules governing exam credit to former licensees, test administration, and emission types will go into effect on Monday, July 21. In a wide-ranging Report and Order (R&O) released June 9, the Commission announced that it would grant examination credit for written elements 3 (General) and 4 (Amateur Extra) to holders of “expired …
American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources
The FUNcube-3 payload has reached orbit, and its 145.815 MHz beacon signal has been copied. FUNcube-3 is a transponder-only payload on the QB50 precursor CubeSat, QB50P1, which launched on June 19 from Russia. FUNcube-3 carries an inverting 400 mW SSB/CW transponder, with an uplink passband of 435.035-435.065 MHz (LSB) and a downlink passband of 145.935-145.965 MHz (USB).
The QB50P1 and QB50P2 p…
American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources
Video Rating: 0 / 5
I’ve replaced the local oscillator with a Spartan-6 FPGA and scanning with it’s internal PLL.
I show VGA output, IQ processing, 256 point FFT and audio from one bin. The final details will be published with the next Element14 video about communication…
Video Rating: 4 / 5
Because of network maintenance, the ARRL Logbook of The World (LoTW), the ARRL Centennial QSO Party site, the ARRL Store, and the @arrl.org e-mail system will be down overnight Friday to Saturday, June 20-21 (Saturday, June 21, from 0000 until 1000 UTC). All incoming e-mails to @arrl.org addresses will be queued for later delivery. E-mail to @arrl.net Forwarding Service addresses will not be af…
American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources
Cisco 64-Channel High-Density Packet Voice and Video Digital Signal Processor Module – Voice DSP module – for Cisco 2901, 2911, 2921, 2951, 3925, 3925E, 3945, 3945EThe Cisco High-Density Packet Voice Digital Signal Processor Module (PVDM3) enables Cisco 2900 and 3900 Series Integrated Services Routers Generation 2 to provide rich-media capabilities such as high-density voice video connectivity, conferencing, transcoding, transrating, and secure voice in Cisco Unified Communications Solutions.The
List Price: $ 3,490.99
Price: [wpramaprice asin=”B00KOHSL3M”]
[wpramareviews asin=”B00KOHSL3M”]
Find More Digital Signal Processor Products
Virginia Tech Amateur Radio Association (VTARA/K4KDJ) Speaker: Josh Arritt, KF4YLM Date: Wednesday, October 30, 2013 @ 7:00 PM Location: Squires 219 The majo…
Video Rating: 0 / 5
American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources
Feature:Sticks with this combination (RTL2832 + R820T) are relatively new on
the market. The main difference to all the other supported tuners so
far is that it uses a Low-IF (3.57 MHz) architecture instead of
Zero-IF. That means the tuner is only connected to the In-Phase ADC
input, and the internal down converter of the RTL2832 is generating the
complex samples. This has the benefit of having no DC offset spike in
the middle of the spectrum.
So far the tuner dr
List Price: $ 36.98
Price: [wpramaprice asin=”B00JLCIGFY”]
[wpramareviews asin=”B00JLCIGFY”]
More RTL-SDR Products
This is an antenna tuner for the BC-610 and/or T368 Transmitter that would have been for the AN/GRC-26D — I received this unit and it turns out to be missin…
If you’ve always fancied having an antenna tuner up the tower or mast but have been put off by the complication of controlling it this could be for you. Plea…
What some consider Europe’s answer to Dayton Hamvention®, the 39th International “Ham Radio” exhibition gets underway June 27 in Friedrichshafen, on the shores of Lake Constance in southern Germany. Thousands of radio amateurs and electronics enthusiasts will converge on the Messe Friedrichshafen convention center and surrounding fairgrounds for the event. Some 200 exhibitors and organizations …
American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources
The Summit, NY Qth is the most active station in the USA with 10-14 hours a day activity and 48 hours during contests. See why?
Video Rating: 5 / 5
Dave visited the Manly Warringah Amateur (HAM) Radio Society to see what they are up to…
(KO85ss)QTH-Moscow,Russia.
Check out these Yaesu images:
men at work
Image by OiMax
Yaesu, Tokyo Japan
See where this picture was taken. [?]
P1080748
Image by kawanet
Software Defined Radio Receiver USB Stick – RTL2832 w/R820T
Image by adafruit
Available at Adafruit!
Matt Wilhelm, W1MSW, of Williamsburg, Massachusetts, will be the new ARRL Contest Branch Manager. He will start work at ARRL Headquarters on July 3. An active contester and a member of the Yankee Clipper Contest Club and the Hampden County Amateur Radio Association, Wilhelm has been licensed since 2009 and holds an Amateur Extra ticket. He became hooked on contesting after the first ARRL Rookie…
American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources
Explains how to setup and use the psk reporter. Sorry I got kinda long winded and lost track of what I was thinking several time…
My New Favorite Social Network Is Ham Radio
Amateur radio, or ham radio, is "the use of designated radio frequency spectra for purposes of private recreation, noncommercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, and emergency communication." This means that people all …
Read more on Kiowa County Signal
Ofcom amateur radio licence FAQ
However, we know that some amateurs have more than one personal licence and, for the purposes of revalidating, you should revalidate all or any licence(s) that you hold. If you have more than one personal licence, it is likely that we shall be …
Read more on Southgate Amateur Radio Club