The Dayton Hamvention® — the largest gathering of radio amateurs in the US — is just around the corner, May 17-19. Held annually at the Hara Arena Conference and Exhibition Center in the Dayton suburb of Trotwood, Ohio, Hamvention is sponsored by the Dayton Amateur Radio Association (DARA).

This year’s “ARRL Dayton Team” includes more than 100 people — volunteers, officials and Headquarters s…

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W1AW, the Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Station, is celebrating its 75th anniversary this year, and what better way to show your support of Amateur Radio’s flagship station than by sporting W1AW commemorative gear! The ARRL is featuring a limited edition t-shirt, key chain, pin and challenge coin to mark this milestone.

The charcoal-colored cotton T-shirt comes in sizes Small-4XL and features “W1AW…

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This is another amazing reception realized near the village of Rakovica in the extreme northwest of Bulgaria realised together with my DX-colleague and frien…

The FCC has issued a Citation and Order to Ruben D. Lopez Jr of Pomona Park, Florida. The Citation, issued April 23, is in response to several complaints about a well pump at Lopez’s residence that was acting as an incidental radiator and causing harmful interference to local radio amateurs.

In July 2010 and February 2011, the FCC received complaints from radio amateurs regarding interference on…

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Two strong stations from Asia (9V and JA) are monitored using the vintage Telereader CWR-685E on the 40 m band..I often use this device to do casual CW..73.

Featuring ARRL CEO Dave Sumner, K1ZZ, WA1HLR singing, Skip, and much more. WO1N, was falsely listed as W1DIN.

Digital communications enthusiasts will be heading to the Pacific Northwest this autumn for the 32nd annual ARRL/TAPR Digital Communications Conference (DCC), September 20-22, at Cedarbrook Lodge near Seattle, Washington. The ARRL/TAPR DCC is an international forum for radio amateurs to meet, publish their work and present new ideas and techniques. Presenters and attendees will have the opportu…

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While solar activity weakened this past week, geomagnetic conditions were stable. The geomagnetic storm predicted for last weekend did not happen, and both the planetary and mid-latitude A index only rose to 10 on April 14 in response to a glancing blow from a coronal mass ejection (CME). The average daily sunspot numbers declined nearly 25 points to 113.3, while the average daily solar flux wa…

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On Saturday morning, April 20, a powerful 7.0 Richter scale earthquake struck Ya’an City in China’s Sichuan province. The epicenter was near Lushan County. There are reports of at least 113 people killed and more than 2000 injured.

Amateurs in Sichuan province took immediate action with Liu Hu, BD8AAA and BD8DX leading a team to the disaster area to provide emergency communication services. In t…

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By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor

This week, Surfin’ considers spring outdoor maintenance — with wire antennas in mind.

Last week, all the snow finally melted around my house and I started poking around the yard trying to prioritize spring outdoor maintenance. I discovered a dangerous situation: An underground cable popped out of the ground during the winter and invites the blades of my…

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My first exposure to Walt’s iconoclastic writing coincided with the arrival of my Novice license and my very first QST, in April of 1973. The title of the article, “Another Look at Reflections” immediately grabbed me by the curiosity glands. Not only did this article (the first of a four-part series) steer me clear of one of the major pitfalls trapping many new radio amateurs, namely, an unheal…

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The National Association of Broadcasters (NAB) awarded its NAB Television Engineering Achievement Award for 2013 to Jay Adrick, K8CJY, at NAB Show in Las Vegas. Established in 1959, the peer-nominated NAB Engineering Achievement Awards are given for significant contributions to advancing broadcast engineering. Adrick, an ARRL Life Member from Cincinnati, Ohio, retired earlier this year from the…

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mobile APRS station at Mission Bay, San Diego, CA.

On April 16, the FCC issued a Second Memorandum Opinion and Order (MO&O), denying the ARRL’s December 2011 Petition for Reconsideration that sought reconsideration of the FCC’s Second Report and Order (BPL Second Order), “fundamentally affirm[ing]” its rules for Access Broadband over Power Line (Access BPL) systems. In denying the ARRL’s Petition, the FCC noted that the Petition “[did] not rais…

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Where to find single side band signals and when are they USB or LSB.
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Chris Brewer, N5GMJ, of Saginaw, Texas, has been appointed ARRL North Texas Section Manager as of April 30. The current Section Manager, Walt Mayfield, KE5SOO, of Krum, announced he would be resigning due to work and family commitments; he has served as Section Manager since October 2011. ARRL Membership and Volunteer Programs Manager Dave Patton, NN1N, appointed Brewer after consulting with AR…

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An example of relatively low cost portable set up for camping. This is the MFJ-9420 and homemade dipole on 20 meters. Antenna about 20 feet high between two …

K3LR ARRL DX CONTEST 2013.
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Excuse the long dry review series of the Yaesu VX-7R. This review is geared toward the Prepper community, intended for the worst case scenario of SHTF & WROL…

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The digital version of the May issue of QST is now available to ARRL members. The digital edition includes many features not available in the print version, such as:

  • Video overviews of the new Hendricks BitX17A transceiver and the M2 2M-1K2 high power 2 meter amplifier.

Every issue of QST is filled with the news and features you need to keep active in Amateur Radio. Find all this and more in the …

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Photo: Hiram Percy Maxim,inventor,American radio pioneer,Relay League,ARRL,c1914

8×12 inch Photographic Print from a low-quality scan of the original. Please Note: The quality of this particular photo is NOT very good.Title: [Hiram Percy Maxim, inventor, head-and-shoulders portrait, facing left]
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J193785 U.S. Copyright Office.
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Photographic prints–1910-1920.
Portrait photographs–1910-1920.
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I was suprised to hear a full signal from AO-27 today so I got out the camera and made this a project. The bird was making a 35 degree pass and I made 5 qsos…


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Some cool ARRL images:

Roan Mountain

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Some of the beautiful nature you’ll find atop Roan Mountain

Blue Ridge Parkway

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DJ Bardopoulos (Thanos Bardopoulos) was born on 13 September on the island of Rhodes where he lives to this day. He studied electronics, but his passion for …

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This week, Surfin’ explores the website of the Young Ladies in ham radio.

It’s no secret that men dominate ham radio; women only represent about 15 percent of the US ham population. This demographic is also evident when attending ham radio events, such as the Dayton Hamvention®: The guys are everywhere, whereas the gals are few and far between. But there…

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AE6LX from http://www.worldwidedx.com covers the basics of the MFJ-998 1.5 KW Auto Tuner.
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Both the average daily sunspot numbers and the solar flux were up this week, with the sunspot numbers rising nearly 57 points to 138.1, and the average daily solar flux up more than 25 points to 138.8. Paired with the average daily planetary A index dropping from 9.4 to 4.1, this is great news for HF propagation. On April 8, the daily sunspot number reached 162; two days later, it was at 163. T…

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Understanding what is Single Side Band, Lower Sideband and Upper Sideband signals.
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This video shows my dual band antenna that I made for use on the 70 centimeter band (432 MHz) and the 2 meter band (144 MHz). It is horizontally polarized an…

The American Legion Amateur Radio Club (TALARC) held their 2nd annual special event March 15-16, 2013 to commemorate the 94th birthday of The American Legion.

On April 1, Idaho Governor C. L. “Butch” Otter (R) signed Senate Bill 1065 into law. This new law is amendment to a current Idaho law regarding guyed towers, which states that guyed towers “shall be lighted, marked and painted or otherwise constructed to be visible in clear air during daylight hours from a distance of not less than 2000 feet.” With the passage of SB 1065, both guyed Amateur Rad…

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Levi Maaia, K6LCM, for his outstanding video highighting the activities of the Near Space Exploration Club at the Anacapa School in Santa Barbara, California. Watch this video on YouTube or on the ARRL website at www.arrl.org/winners.

2nd Prize: $ 250

Kevin Thornton, K5KVN, for his video of the 2012 first-time “activation” of Horseshoe Island on Beaver Lake in northwest Arkansas as …

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Showing a demo of the APRS to MotoTRBO Gateway running on a RaspberryPi connected to a control station on the MI5 DMR Network… KD8EYF and W8FSM configured …

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Julie N. Zoller, KJ4EMJ, has succeeded Richard C. Beaird at the Department of State as Senior Deputy Coordinator of the Office of Multilateral Affairs, Communications and Information Policy Directorate, Economics and Business Affairs Bureau. In this position, she will serve as principal advisor to the United States Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy. Beaird reti…

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