Experimentation, building, and contesting all come together on the weekends of August 16-17 and September 20-21, when radio amateurs can competitively explore the microwave portion of the radio spectrum during the 2014 ARRL 10 GHz and Up Contest. The contest period on both weekends run from 6 AM local time on Saturday until midnight local time on Sunday.
The exchange is your six-character Maiden…
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The ARRL Rookie Roundup returns to RTTY Sunday, August 17, 1800 UTC through 2359 UTC. This event provides a unique opportunity for new operators (licensed 3 years or fewer) to learn RTTY contesting skills. Rookie Roundup events take place three times a year: SSB in April, RTTY in August, and CW in December.
During the contest Rookies can work anyone, while veteran operators only work Rookies. Ex…
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Reflecting the afterglow of the ARRL National Centennial Convention that concluded a couple of days earlier, the ARRL Board of Directors commended and thanked the ARRL Headquarters staff and the National Centennial Convention volunteers for “their devotion and service, contributing to a truly memorable celebration of this unforgettable milestone in the life of the ARRL.” The resolution, offered…
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ARRL DXCC and Awards Manager Bill Moore, NC1L, was seriously injured in a single-car accident on the afternoon of Thursday, July 3. Moore suffered a broken neck and other injuries and is paralyzed from the chest down. He is stable and recuperating at Mount Sinai Rehab Hospital in Hartford.
There is no timetable for his return to work at ARRL Headquarters. DXCC and awards questions that would nor…
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ARRL The program will include a presentation on the 2013 Amateur Radio response to Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda in the Philippines. Some 100 Amateur Radio volunteers, many affiliated with the Ham Emergency Radio Operations (HERO) network, had a hand in … |
The “test range” was a plain-vanilla office table inside the big exhibition hall. At one end sat a PRC-150, one of some 10,000 or so back-pack HF radios carried by US soldiers, its whip antenna extended and ready for action. At the other end was an innovative commercial radio that had the look and feel of a late-model Amateur Radio. This odd pairing was Army MARS’s high-tech contribution to the…
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In October 2009 the ARRL hosted students participating in the United States Telecommunications Training Institute. In this video, the students completed thei…
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Registration Remains Open for Global Amateur Radio Emergency …
ARRL Some 100 Amateur Radio volunteers, many affiliated with the Ham Emergency Radio Operations (HERO) network, had a hand in providing emergency communication in the storm's aftermath. Working through the IARU member-society, the Philippines … |
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Registration Remains Open for Global Amateur Radio Emergency …
ARRL The program will include a presentation on the 2013 Amateur Radio response to Typhoon Haiyan/Yolanda in the Philippines. Some 100 Amateur Radio volunteers, many affiliated with the Ham Emergency Radio Operations (HERO) network, had a hand in … |
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Registration Remains Open for Global Amateur Radio Emergency …
ARRL Some 100 Amateur Radio volunteers, many affiliated with the Ham Emergency Radio Operations (HERO) network, had a hand in providing emergency communication in the storm's aftermath. Working through the IARU member-society, the Philippines … |
The ARRL and the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) have announced a Memorandum of Agreement (MOA) that will enhance cooperation between the League and FEMA in the area of disaster communication. FEMA Administrator Craig Fugate, KK4INZ, and ARRL President Kay Craigie, N3KN, signed the agreement July 18 during the ARRL National Centennial Convention at the Connecticut Convention Center i…
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Visitors to ARRL Headquarters will be greeted with something new in the area in front of the main entrance. Complementing the terrace of memorial bricks and benches on the left, a new Centennial Terrace on the right side of the main entrance was dedicated on June 17 at a ribbon-cutting and reception, held in conjunction with the ARRL National Centennial Convention now underway in Hartford, Conn…
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The ARRL Board of Directors will meet Monday and Tuesday, July 21-22, in Hartford, Connecticut, The slightly altered scheduling of the July meeting takes advantage of the fact that most Board members will already be in town for the ARRL National Centennial Convention July 17-19.
International guests at the gathering will include IARU Vice President Ole Garpestad, LA2RR, and Radio Amateurs of Can…
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In a video, ARRL President Kay Craigie, N3KN, has issued an urgent call to all radio amateurs to get behind a grassroots campaign to promote co-sponsorship of HR.4969, “The Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2014.” HR.4969 would require the FCC to extend PRB-1 coverage to restrictive covenants. It was introduced in the US House with bipartisan support on June 25 at the request of the ARRL, which worke…
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Because of the ARRL National Centennial Convention, there will be no ARRL Audio News on Friday, July 18. The ARRL Letter, which normally distributes on Thursdays, will go out to subscribers on Wednesday, July 16. See you at the Convention!
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ARRL President Kay Craigie, N3KN, is eagerly anticipating the ARRL National Centennial Convention this week with a sense of history, awe, and honor. The Convention gets underway Thursday, July 17, at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford. Craigie said this week that to be President when the ARRL celebrates its centennial “is an extraordinary good fortune that I am sincerely grateful for…
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Youth (age 21 and younger) may attend the ARRL National Centennial Convention free of charge. Information in The ARRL Letter for July 10 may have suggested otherwise. The 100th anniversary celebration of the League’s founding takes place July 17-19 at the Connecticut Convention Center.
Online registration is now limited to 2-day adult ($ 25) and youth (free) tickets, good for Friday and Saturday …
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ARRL Public Relations Manager Sean Kutzko, KX9X, was interviewed on the morning of July 12 by WTIC radio’s Steve Parker concerning Amateur Radio in general and the upcoming ARRL Centennial Convention in Hartford.
WTIC is a 50 kW broadcast station covering much of New England, not to mention its national and global Internet streaming audience.
Click here to download and listen to an MP3 off-air au…
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This week, as part of the Teachers Institute hosted at ARRL Headquarters in Newington, Connecticut, teachers were shown a number of ways to use Amateur Radio to captivate students and spark their interests in technology.
Instructor Mark Spencer, WA8SME, demonstrated how it was possible to control the movement of a robot via data packets sent through the International Space Station (ISS) digipeat…
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ARRL Great Lakes Division Director Jim Weaver, K8JE, has announced his retirement from the ARRL Board of Directors, effective at noon EDT on July 7. Great Lakes Division Vice Director Dale Williams, WA8EFK, of Dundee, Michigan, is the Division’s new Director. The Great Lakes Division is made up of Ohio, Michigan, and Kentucky.
ARRL President Kay Craigie, N3KN, has appointed W. Thomas “Tom” Dela…
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This video documents the events and activities of the ARRL Field Day 2009. Duval County ARES and the Beaches Amateur Radio Society were the sponsors of the e…
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W6SFM Samuel F Morse Amateur Radio Club ARRL 2012 Field Day event held at Gibson Ranch Park North Highlands, Sacramento CA.
ARRL Headquarters will be closed on Independence Day, Friday, July 4, and there will be no ARRL Audio News, W1AW bulletins or code practice on those days. ARRL Audio News will return July 11. We wish everyone a safe and enjoyable Fourth of July holiday!
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[Updated 2014-06-24 @ 2217 UTC] The ARRL National Centennial Convention July 17-19 in Hartford, Connecticut, will feature a wide-ranging slate of youth activities aimed at younger hams and prospective hams. Scheduled on Friday and Saturday, the youth activities include two youth forums, a hidden transmitter hunt, a scavenger hunt, and the Youth Radio Lab. The ARRL Discovery Station in the ARRL …
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A talk on June 25 by ARRL CEO David Sumner, K1ZZ, at the Norfolk Amateur Radio Club (NARC) in England will be streamed live on the Internet. Sumner’s topic is “Amateur Radio Across the Pond.” His live presentation will start about 1900 UTC on Wednesday and be streamed via the BATC website. Click the LIVE EVENTS button to access the stream.
Sumner is making a brief stopover in the UK while en rou…
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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…
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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…
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Check out these ARRL images:
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Split Rock Amateur Radio Association ARRL Field Day 2007
Horseshoe Lake, Roxbury Township, NJ
Split Rock ARA Field Day 2007
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Split Rock Amateur Radio Association ARRL Field Day 2007
Horseshoe Lake, Roxbury Township, NJ
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…
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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…
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Some ARRL Network services will be affected by a maintenance outage on the evening of Thursday, June 12 (2200 UTC on June 12 until 0200 UTC on June 13). Affected services will include e-mail to and from ARRL Headquarters (all e-mail will be queued for later delivery); Logbook of The World (LoTW); the ARRL Centennial QSO Party site, and Online DXCC. The ARRL website, including The ARRL Store, wi…
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My quick QSO and exchange with OH1F in the 10m ARRL International DX Contest. Proving that HF contesting is pretty easy.
Video Rating: 5 / 5
Due to network maintenance, ARRL’s Logbook of The World (LoTW), the ARRL Centennial QSO Party site, and the @arrl.org e-mail system will be down on Saturday, June 7, from 1200 until 1600 UTC. All incoming e-mails to @arrl.org addresses will be queued for delivery following the outage. We apologize for any inconvenience.
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W100AW/7 will be on the air from Sea-Pac, the ARRL Northwestern Division 2014 Convention and an ARRL Regional Centennial Event, in Seaside, Oregon. W100AW/7 will be active from June 6 until June 8. Contacts with W100AW portable operations are worth 5 points in the ARRL Centennial QSO Party. Operation will be on SSB, CW, and possibly on digital modes.
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ARRL Life Member Howard O. “H.O.” Townsend, K5CX (ex-WA5MLT), of Naples, Texas, died on May 30. He was 69. Townsend was a retired software designer and a US Army veteran.
An Honor Roll DXer, West Gulf Division Assistant Director, and past Section Emergency Coordinator, Townsend participated in the W1AW/5 Centennial QSO Party operation from Texas (12 meters SSB).
ARRL West Gulf Division Director D…
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The ARRL Foundation Board of Directors has announced the scholarship recipients for 2014. Each year, the Foundation’s Directors have the honor and privilege of selecting Amateur Radio operators who will receive monetary assistance to further their undergraduate or graduate education. For 2014, the Foundation awarded 79 annual scholarships through 58 funds to young Amateur Radio operators, value…
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ARRL Rocky Mountain Vice Director Dwayne Allen, WY7FD, has agreed to stipulations spelled out by the ARRL Board of Directors to address a conflict-of-interest situation arising from the employment of his wife, Katie Allen, WY7KRA, by CQ Communications Inc. Emphasizing that there had been no allegations of impropriety on the part of either Dwayne or Katie Allen, the ARRL Ethics & Elections Commi…
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The ARRL has responded (see attachments below) to an appeal from the Ukrainian Amateur Radio League (UARL) to “consider the information regarding the status of Crimea as temporarily occupied territory.” UARL President Vladimir Grishchenko, UT0FT, told the ARRL on May 3, that Russia’s “illegal annexation” of Crimea “does not change the status of this territory, which legally belongs to Ukraine.”…
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TM1M recorded an hour before the end of ARRL DX SSB 2014 Contest in my QTH (VE3VEE) on 14 MHz.
Video Rating: 5 / 5
On a May 23 broadcast, Connecticut Public Radio station WNPR featured Amateur Radio and the ARRL as part of its “Where We Live” program, hosted by John Dankosky. During the segment, Dankosky and reporter Patrick Skahill, who also authors a science blog known as The Beaker, discussed the ARRL centennial and the rich history of Amateur Radio.
You can listen to the 12-minute segment at http://wnpr…
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This is some highlights of the JUne 2010 VHF ARRL QSO Party. E-Skip conditions occurred several times and added to an interesting contest.
Video Rating: 5 / 5
The Third video from the big 6M E Skip opening during the 2010 June ARRL VHF contest.
Video Rating: 1 / 5
ARRL Headquarters will be closed Monday, May 26 in observance of Memorial Day. There will be no W1AW code practice or bulletin transmissions that day. ARRL Headquarters will reopen Tuesday, May 27 at 8 AM (EDT).
We wish everyone a safe and enjoyable holiday weekend!
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Four new ARRL Section Managers will take office on July 1. Ballots were counted May 20 for contested races in the spring SM election cycle.
In Indiana, Joseph Lawrence, K9RFZ, of Fort Wayne, received 652 votes to top incumbent Section Manager Lou Everett Sr, WA5LOU, of Cumberland, who polled 482 votes. Everett has been SM for the past 2 years.
Lawrence previously served as Indiana’s Section Emerg…
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ARRL Media and Public Relations Manager Sean Kutzko, KX9X, has added new 30-second radio/audio public service announcements (PSAs) to promote Amateur Radio and the 2014 ARRL Field Day.
The spot named “Amateur” talks about the meaning of the word amateur and how the Amateur Radio Emergency Service (ARES) helps during disasters. It includes an 8-second “bed” at the end for local clubs to provide c…
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The ARRL has launched a new online resource that allows users to take randomly generated practice exams using questions from the actual examination question pool. ARRL Exam Review for Ham Radio™ is free, and users do not need to be ARRL members. The only requirement is that users must first set up a site login (this is a different and separate login from your ARRL website user registration).
“Th…
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A few nice ARRL images I found:
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ARRL member Jim Abercrombie, N4JA (ex-K4BMS), of Enoree, South Carolina, died May 14. He was 76. According to Charles Pennington, K4GK, Abercrombie was fatally injured as the result of a fall from his Amateur Radio tower.
Abercrombie was a serious DXer with 340 current DXCC entities confirmed (mixed). He served briefly in 1972 as the ARRL Section Communications Manager (now Section Manager) for …
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Upward of 7 dozen vendors and exhibitors already are planning to be on hand for the ARRL National Centennial Convention in mid-July. Convention activities begin on Thursday, July 17. The 60,000 square feet exhibit hall will be open all day Friday and Saturday, July 18 and 19, at the Connecticut Convention Center in Hartford, for what promises to be the largest gathering of its kind in the North…
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The ARRL VHF/UHF contest September 2013 KA1SUN NJ1F KJ1K W2SZ From FN 21,22,23,31,32,33 to MtGreylock in FN 32.
Asserting “a substantial stake” in the outcome of the proceeding, the ARRL has commented in opposition to an FCC proposal that would leave licensed radio service users vulnerable to interference from unlicensed devices. In a docket unrelated to Amateur Radio spectrum, the Commission has indicated that it’s willing to consider adding licensed Globalstar terrestrial users to the 2473-2483.5 MHz b…
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Network service at ARRL Headquarters will be down overnight, Friday, May 2/Saturday, May 3, from midnight until 8 AM EDT (0400 to 1200 UTC on Saturday, May 3) to facilitate the upgrade of the ARRL computer network. During that time all ARRL Headquarters services will be down, including Logbook of The World and the ARRL Store. E-mail sent to @arrl.org addresses will be queued for delivery when t…
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This month’s QuickStats poll has been posted! Check the QuickStats page and answer these questions . . .
Did you include hamfests in your summer travel plans?
When making up your own coaxial cables, what tool do you use to solder the connectors?
Which VHF/UHF digital communications system do you find most interesting?
Have you ever attempted to operate Amateur Radio while traveling on a train?
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Sunday 2000Z of ARRL DX Contest SSB, quickly working stations off my bandmap packet spots on 15M into my Apache Labs ANAN-100D, stereo diversity recording, 3…
Proceeds from the 2013 ARRL Hudson Division Awards Banquet last fall have been donated to the ARRL Spectrum Defense Fund by banquet sponsor, the Orange County Amateur Radio Club (OCARC) The donation totaled nearly $ 5000, a record for the Division. Nearly 170 attended. Awards for 2012 and 2013 were presented, since the 2012 banquet had to be called off due to Hurricane Sandy.
Award recipients wer…
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