For many years, Boy Scouts and Scouters have been able to earn an interpreter strip to wear on their uniforms. This strip — worn on the uniform above the right pocket — denotes proficiency in a foreign language or sign language. Each language has its own strip (with the name of the language embroidered in that language), and some Scouts and Scouters wear more than one strip. Now those hams in…

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Six months after President Barack Obama nominated Jessica Rosenworcel and Ajit Varadaraj Pai to the Federal Communications Commission, the Senate confirmed their appointments on Monday, May 7. Rosenworcel, a Democrat, fills the seat vacated by Michael Copps who retired from the Commission earlier this year; her term runs through June 30, 2015. Pai, a Republican, replaces Meredith Attwell Baker,…

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By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor

This week, Surfin’ rediscovers the wonders of open source software.

I am trying to get my ducks all lined up for my annual trek to the Dayton Hamvention in less than two weeks. One duck in that line-up is PSR, the quarterly newsletter of TAPR. In addition to serving as the Contributing Editor of Surfin’, I am editor of PSR and the pre-Dayton issue of tha…

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The average daily sunspot numbers declined 38 points to 106.7 this week, while the average daily solar flux declined nearly 18 points to 116.2. Sunspot numbers for April 26-May 2 were 117, 99, 118, 114, 104, 99 and 96, with a mean of 106.7. The 10.7 cm flux was 119.2, 117.9, 121.1, 116, 114.1, 109.9 and 115.5, with a mean of 116.2. The estimated planetary A indices were 17, 8, 5, 5, 3, 4 and 5,…

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Fred Kleber, K9VV, has been appointed as Section Manager of the Virgin Islands Section beginning May 1, 2012. Kleber, of Christiansted, is taking the reins from John Ellis, NP2B, who is planning to move out of the Section soon. Ellis has been Section Manager of the Virgin Islands since 1996. Kleber has served as the Section Emergency Coordinator of the Virgin Islands this past year.

Ellis recomm…

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By Joe Moell, K0OV
ARRL Amateur Radio Direction Finding Coordinator
k0ov@homingin.com

Some call it foxhunting, but no animals are ever harmed. The hunt trophies are gold, silver and bronze medals. Will you win one this year?

The biggest event of the year is coming soon for fans of on-foot hidden transmitter hunting, also called foxtailing, radio-orienteering and Amateur Radio Direction Finding (ARD…

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On May 1, Dragan Pavlovic, YT3PDT, completed his registration process for Logbook of The World (LoTW), becoming the 50,000th person to take advantage of the ARRL’s online QSL confirmation system. According to ARRL Membership and Volunteer Programs Manager Dave Patton, NN1N, there are more than 3500 individuals from outside the US in the process of obtaining a digital certificate, and more than …

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The Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine Corps and Coast Guard are co-sponsoring the annual Military/Amateur Radio Crossband Communications Test in celebration of the 62nd anniversary of Armed Forces Day (AFD). Although the actual Armed Forces Day is celebrated on the third Saturday in May — May 19 in 2012 — the AFD Military/Amateur Crossband Communications Test will be conducted on May 12 to preven…

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Compiled by S. Khrystyne Keane, K1SFA
ARRL News Editor
k1sfa@arrl.org

This feature — including convenient Web links to useful information — is a concise monthly update of some of the things ARRL is doing on behalf of its members. This installment covers the month of April.

More than 1200 radio amateurs respond to a request for comments by the ARRL in response to an FCC Public Notice that stemmed …

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The winner of the April QST Cover Plaque award is retired USCG Commander Richard Paton for his article “Radio’s Role in the Titanic Disaster.” Congratulations Richard! The QST Cover Plaque award — given to the author or authors of the best article in each issue — is determined by a vote of ARRL members on the QST Cover Plaque Poll web page . Cast a ballot for your favorite article in the May …

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By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor

This week, Surfin’ gets its feet wet with SDR by means of a bevy of online SDR receivers.

On the Software-Defined Radio (SDR) front, Tad Cook, K7RA, mentioned PA3FWM’s WebSDR in the K7RA Solar Update on April 13 and I mentioned it here back in June 2008. It is worth repeating because it is a very valuable online resource and it has expanded greatly since…

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Solar activity revived over the past week, with a big increase in sunspot numbers. On Friday, April 20, the daily sunspot number reached 162; four days later on April 24, the number reached 169. This level of activity has not been seen since last fall, when the daily sunspot number reached 173 on September 16, 184 on October 21 and 208 on November 9.

The average daily sunspot numbers more than d…

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In April, the FCC put out a Public Notice, requesting comments regarding a Congressional-mandated study to assess Amateur Radio’s role in emergency and disaster communications and the impact of private land use regulations on the amateur community’s ability to provide such communications. The ARRL asked the amateur community to forward comments directly to the ARRL so that it could use them to …

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For the past 11 years, the US Office of Personnel Management has designated the ARRL to participate in the Combined Federal Campaign (CFC), the annual giving campaign for federal employees. In that time, this campaign for federal government civilian employees, US Postal Service workers and members of the military has generated almost $ 192,000 for ARRL programs. The CFC provides an easy way to s…

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NASA is now accepting proposals from US schools, museums, science centers and community youth organizations to host an Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) contact between November 1, 2012 and May 1, 2013. To maximize these radio contact opportunities, NASA is looking for organizations that will draw large numbers of participants and integrate the contact into a well-develop…

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As part of the ARRL EXPO — part of the 2012 Dayton Hamvention® — the ARRL is pleased to present a plethora of DX activities. Visitors to the ARRL EXPO will see a lot of activities relating to DX, including DXCC card checking and a chance to drop off QSL cards for the ARRL Outgoing QSL Bureau, as well as representatives from the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) and IARU Member-Societie…

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By Gary Hoffman, KB0H
Contributing Editor

I cleaned my shack this morning. Okay, that might not even be physically possible, but I certainly made a serious dent in the clutter. I removed everything that was keeping me from opening my file cabinets. I extracted a bunch of junk from behind them and moved them back so that there was more space in the shack. I untangled the mass of cables and wires t…

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The ARRL has finalized its planning to bring its large exhibition — ARRL EXPO — to Dayton Hamvention, May 18-20. The ARRL EXPO has been a mainstay at Hamvention since 2005, serving as the centerpiece for most of the League’s activities at the country’s largest Amateur Radio convention. “Our goal is help represent the fullness of the ARRL membership programs and services at the convention,” sa…

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By Sterling Coffey, N0SSC
ARRL Youth Editor

n0ssc@arrl.net

Experienced hams knew it all too well. Volunteer Examiners expect it. And for some reason, newly licensed hams fear it. What could it be? As the title suggests, completing your first contact is a daunting — yet exciting — event for many. Why is that? What can we do to get over that lump-in-the-throat feeling known as “mic fright?”

You ma…

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On April 14, a string of tornados swept through the Central US and Great Lakes Region, including an EF2 tornado in Creston, Iowa, causing severe damage to the Greater Regional Medical Center and the Southwestern Community College campus. Prior to the tornado, radio amateurs in Creston reported storm observations directly to the National Weather Service. After the storm forced the evacuation of …

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By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor

This week, Surfin’ loses the DIY blahs after learning about new ham radio modules that require hacking.

Sometimes I feel like a slug. I get enthused about building something new, buy what I need to build it, sometimes start building it, sometimes not. I never finish building it because life gets in the way or because I lose enthusiasm or because I am a …

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As promised in the April 19th edition of The ARRL Letter, this week’s bulletin features a report on recent solar activity and solar cycle progression from Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA.

Both the solar flux and sunspot numbers reached a short term low on April 8-11, but they are now rising again. For the past week — April 12-18 — the average daily sunspot numbers more than doubled, compared to the p…

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The ARRL Executive Committee met on Saturday, March 24 in St Louis, Missouri. The minutes from that meeting are now available on the ARRL website.

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After a life changing injury aboard the tugboat I captained, I was told I would never be able to return to the job I so loved. I felt like the whole world had just ended. After many months of recovery, I had to say my farewells and deal with the loss of the use of my right arm. I found myself beached for the rest of my life. So after the self pity finally wore off, I started a new adventure, Am…

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Thinking about using Amateur Radio and wireless technology in your classroom to help facilitate hands-on learning opportunities? The ARRL’s Education & Technology Program (ETP) offers two programs that can help make this happen, but the deadline to apply is fast approaching: The deadline for the 2012 Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology (TI) is May 15, while the deadline for equipment and …

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Robert L. (Bob) Shrader, W6BNB, author of 10 QST articles, died April 11 at age 98. He was a long-time resident of Sebastopol, California. His most recent QST article was “Using Mechanical CW Keys” in the February 2010 issue. A prolific author at an age when most settle into retirement, he also published articles in Ham Radio and CQ. He was inducted into the CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame in 200…

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Acting on a recommendation by ARRL Membership and Volunteer Programs Manager Dave Patton, NN1N, the ARRL’s Programs and Services Committee (PSC) adopted new rules for ARRL field card checkers. ARRL card checkers now may check QSL cards for those entities deleted from the DXCC list and, with certain exceptions, check cards for 160 meters. In addition, the PSC decided not to change the process by…

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As part of ITU Telecom World 2012 — scheduled for October 14-18 in Dubai — the conference will present the Young Innovators Program. With its theme of Youth Innovation for Development, the Young Innovators Competition is a chance for the next generation of young visionaries to demonstrate their ideas and innovations on this global stage and show how their fresh digital thinking can change the…

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By H. Ward Silver, N0AX
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Spring marks the transition of the contest seasons, as the big DX contests give way to summer’s domestic and VHF+ activity. See if you’re ready to put some QSOs in your log with radiosport recreation in these April, May, and June on-the-air events! To help you complete the quiz, you can find contest calendars on the ARRL website and the WA7BNM Contest Calenda…

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The Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) is deploying a new generation of Common Air Route Surveillance Radar (CARSR) that has some implications for the use of the 1240-1300 MHz (23 cm) band by amateurs. The Amateur Service allocation in this band is on a secondary basis, with aeronautical radionavigation and several other services primary in the United States Table of Frequency Allocations. T…

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On April 3, 2012, perfect conditions conducive to tornado activity converged on North Texas. A slow moving front, combined with abnormally warm temperatures and moist air coming in from the south, produced large hail, numerous funnel clouds, and tornados. As the weather worsened, hams in North Texas activated ARES® and RACES nets. Spotters reported their observations to their local Emergency Op…

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ARRL Reports 2012 Growth Of 30% in Amateur Radio Licensing

The first quarter of 2012 (January-March) saw a high level of Amateur Radio license exam sessions, producing an elevated influx of applications for new licensees. According to ARRL VEC Manager Maria Somma, AB1FM, these numbers outpaced the 2011 first quarter results by 30 percent. This uptick does not only apply to new applications; there was a 6 percent increase in the number of upgrades, too. “Statistics over the last 13 years reveal that these are the highest numbers that we’ve ever seen for the total number of US amateurs,” Somma said. “Now there are more than 704,000 radio amateurs in the US.”

Amateur Radio Breaks 700,000 Barrier

Somma said that there are currently 704,236 licensed Amateur Radio operators in the US. “We broke the 700,000 barrier in October 2011 for Amateur Radio,” she explained, “and the numbers continue to progress higher. Broken down by license class, at the end of March there were 14,352 Novices, 343,597 Technicians, 161,220 Generals, 57,393 Advanced and 127,674 Amateur Extra licensees. It’s an all-time high for Technician, General and Extra class licensees, as well. Additionally, our total number of licensees across all three classes has grown each year.”

For the first quarter of 2012, Somma said that the ARRL VEC test session statistics are the highest first quarter results since the FCC’s restructuring of the license requirements in 2007: “Our exam session activity and exam elements administered are elevated. As the total number of licensees across all three license classes continues to grow each year, the demand for Amateur Radio exam sessions also grows. In turn, the number of amateurs who want to be Volunteer Examiners and who want to teach Amateur Radio classes is also rising. The ARRL VEC has seen a spike in the number of applications from General and Extra class radio amateurs who want to give back to their community by serving as examiners and instructors. This is a positive trend in Amateur Radio that we expect will continue over the coming months.”

 

The new Digital Edition of QST will debut toward the end of May. If you are an ARRL member and you haven’t yet signed up to be notified automatically when the Digital Edition becomes available, you can do so easily. Just go to EDIT YOUR PROFILE at www.arrl.org. Click EDIT EMAIL SUBSCRIPTIONS and then check the box next to NOTIFICATION OF MONTHLY DIGITAL EDITION OF QST. That’s all there is to i…

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The year 2012 marks the 87th anniversary of the founding of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU). To mark this occasion, the IARU and its more than 160 Member-Societies will celebrate World Amateur Radio Day on April 18. For many years, the IARU has declared a theme for each World Amateur Radio Day. The theme for 2012 is Amateur Radio Satellites: Celebrating 50 Years in Space in remembr…

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The Eighth Global Amateur Radio Emergency Communications Conference (GAREC) — called MyGAREC 2012 — will be held November 12-14 in the Malaysian state of Negeri Sembilan at the Thistle Port Dickson Resort.

GAREC — which began in 2005 in Tampere, Finland — began in 2005. The conference attracts radio amateurs who have an interest in providing emergency communications in response to disasters …

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By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor

This week, Surfin’ discovers the iPod Touch — and its proliferation of ham radio apps.

My sister Jeanette always buys us scratch-off lottery tickets as Christmas stocking stuffers. This past Christmas was no different — except that I won $ 105 on the first ticket I scratched clean.

I also received a $ 100 gift card from Santa. I never squander money that …

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The ARRL has just released two new books and a digital software library that you are going to want to have in your shack: Hints & Kinks for the Radio Amateur (18th edition) and Short Antennas for 160 Meter Radio by Grant Bingeman, KM5KG. The newest version of Software Library for Hams is also available for both as an immediate download or on CD-ROM.

Hints & Kinks for the Radio Amateur (18th Edit…

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The bulletin appears a day early this week because ARRL Headquarters is closed for the Good Friday holiday.

Over the past week, the average daily sunspot number and solar flux values rose slightly, even though as the week progressed, each day had a lower number than the day before. The daily sunspot number began the week at a high of 100, but ended at 60. Likewise, the daily solar flux started a…

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A few months ago, the ARRL UHF/Microwave Band Plan Committee asked the Amateur Radio community about current, planned and projected uses of the amateur bands between 902 MHz-3.5 GHz. The response was beyond our expectations, with hundreds of comments and suggestions received. Thanks to all of you who took the time to share information with us.

After reading the feedback, the Committee began work…

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In response to the Congressional directive to prepare a study to assess Amateur Radio’s role in emergency and disaster communications and the impact of private land use regulations on the amateur community’s ability to provide such communications, the FCC issued DA 12-523 soliciting comments from the public. The period for public comment runs until May 17, 2012.

“As part of the study contained i…

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On April 1, Google announced that it has unveiled a new way to use its popular Gmail e-mail system. Called Gmail Tap, it uses dots and dashes to form letters, a system of communicating that should be very familiar to radio amateurs. “Morse code is perfect,” said Gmail Tap Engineer Mitch Fedenko. “It’s just a dot and a dash. What’s simpler than that?”

According to Google, Gmail Tap will let you t…

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Yaesu FT-2900R 75 Watt 2 Meter VHF Mobile Transceiver Amateur Ham Radio

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Compiled by S. Khrystyne Keane, K1SFA
ARRL News Editor
k1sfa@arrl.org

This feature — including convenient Web links to useful information — is a concise monthly update of some of the things ARRL is doing on behalf of its members. This installment covers the month of March.

New privileges on 60 meters went into effect on March 5. After communicating with the NTIA, the ARRL announced that the NTIA …

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 The holder of one of the best-known US Amateur Radio call signs, Frederick (Fred) Maia, W5YI, died of cancer Wednesday, March 28. He was 76 and was a resident of Arlington, Texas.

Fred was a leading Amateur Radio journalist for nearly 35 years and a pioneer of the volunteer examining program adopted by the FCC in 1984.

Maia published “The W5YI Report,” dubbed “America’s Oldest Ham Radio Newslett…

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Sterling Coffey,N0SSC
ARRL Youth Editor

Many have asked and pondered the answers to the question: “What is the best way to draw in new young hams?” Gordon West, WB6NOA, asked this very question to my friend Jacob Keogh, KD0NVX, on Ham Nation, hosted by Bob Heil, K9EID. Last month, I mentioned running into the two at the St Louis Winterfest, but I never would have thought Jacob would have got a sp…

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Eight new sunspot groups appeared this week, but the average daily sunspot number declined four points to 71.1; the average daily solar flux rose by less than two points to 103.7. Sunspot numbers for March 22-28 were 86, 74, 65, 84, 56, 63 and 70, with a mean of 71.1. The 10.7 cm flux was 102.4, 104.8, 102.7, 101.3, 102.4, 105.6 and 107, with a mean of 103.7. The estimated planetary A indices w…

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The holder of one of the best-known US Amateur Radio call signs, Frederick (Fred) Maia, W5YI, died of cancer Wednesday, March 28. He was 76 and was a resident of Arlington, Texas.

Fred was a leading Amateur Radio journalist for nearly 35 years and a pioneer of the volunteer examining program adopted by the FCC in 1984.

Maia published “The W5YI Report,” dubbed “America’s Oldest Ham Radio Newslett…

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In response to requests for clarification from the ARRL, the National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA) has confirmed that it has no objection to the use of a broader range of data emissions by amateurs on the five 5 MHz frequencies on 60 meters. ARRL’s original understanding was that the NTIA preferred that the use of 2K80J2D emission be limited to Pactor III. The NTIA n…

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Beginning April 2 at 12:01 AM EDT (0401 UTC), the ARRL’s new Online DXCC tool will be ready to accept applications, allowing hams to supply the data from traditional paper QSLs in a digital form to apply for a new DXCC award or endorsement. Submitting a DXCC application using Online DXCC is easier than making a paper application, saving both time and money.

Using the Online DXCC Application, the…

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The League is currently looking to fill two open positions at ARRL Headquarters in Newington. One position is in the Membership and Volunteer Programs Department and the other is in the Education Services Department. Travel is required for these full-time positions.

MVP Awards and Programs Assistant

This person who fills this position will assist in all activities found within the MVP Department,…

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Founded in 1937, the Réseau Luxembourgeois des Amateurs d’Ondes Courtes (RL) — that country’s IARU Member-Society — is celebrating its 75th anniversary. In honor of this milestone, Luxembourg’s Entreprise des Postes et Télécommunications (P&TLuxembourg) has issued a .60 € postage stamp (about 80 cents in US dollars); P&TLuxembourg is that country’s government owned corporation for mail and te…

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Many of us who have an interest in Amateur Radio are also attracted to technology-based professions. It is therefore not surprising to find 17 hams working at the Spallation Neutron Source (SNS). The SNS is a particle accelerator-based neutron source located at Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Oak Ridge, Tennessee.

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By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor

This week, Surfin’ discovers that WWV has a new voice — and she is digital.

Time and frequency radio station WWV recently switched to a digital female voice for its 18th minute of the hour geophysical alert broadcasts. A text-to-speech engine from NeoSpeech generates the new voice “Kate,” which was chosen for its clarity and consistency.

The new voice is…

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By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor

This week, Surfin’ finds wiring diagrams for all those microphones that are on the loose in Ham Radio Land.

Have mic? Need connection?

Then a visit to the website Roy Frettsome, G4WPW, is just what the microphone doctor ordered. G4WPE’s Microphone Connections website is probably the most comprehensive and up-to-date Internet source for ham radio microphon…

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Solar activity declined this week: The average daily sunspot numbers were off by more than 13 points to 75.1, while the average daily solar flux dropped over 32 points to 102.1. The solar flux dropped barely below 100, but rounded up to 100 as shown on the NOAA SEC site. The next short-term peak in solar flux is expected at the 135 level for April 3-6. The predicted solar flux for March 23-25 i…

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The average daily sunspot numbers over the past reporting week (March 8-14) were 88.3, a rise of nearly 19 points; the average daily solar flux rose more than 12 points to 134.2. Sunspot numbers for March 8-14 were 86, 96, 89, 103, 89, 80 and 75, with a mean of 88.3. The 10.7 cm flux was 139.5, 145.5, 148.9, 131.2, 114.9, 140.7 and 118.8, with a mean of 134.2. The estimated planetary A indices …

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Tucson Amateur Packet Radio (TAPR) announces the opening of the “interest list” for the openHPSDR Hermes single-board Software Defined Radio. The Hermes interest list is used by TAPR to determine the number of Hermes boards to manufacture in the pending initial production run this spring.

Hermes is a long-awaited addition to the openHPSDR project lineup, advancing through four prototypes while e…

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