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The ARRL.net system is experiencing intermittent delivery issues with a few ISPs, the largest being Comcast.net. We are working diligently to resolve the issues and we appreciate your patience as we work with Comcast to rectifiy the situation.
If you discover that valid messages forwarded from ARRL.net to your regular e-mail account are not being accepted by your ISP you can, and should, call yo…
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Four new poll questions have just been published on the QuickStats page on the ARRL website.
Questions in this month’s QuickStats poll:
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Do you take ham gear on your summer vacation trips?
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Have you tried the new JT9 digital mode?
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Do you have a dedicated electronics “bench” in your home for making equipment repairs, working on projects, etc?
- Do you own a computer/transceiver interface for HF …
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Amateur station from Uruguay on 10 meters RTTY contest january 6th 2013.
qso in rtty (afsk) con kb5ga.
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The ARRL Letter will not be published this week, or the week following. It will return the week of June 17.
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A quick peak at The Ge-o (K9WWT) working the 2012 ARRL CW Sweepstakes contest! Just didn’t have the time this year to really go at it so it was more or less …
Compiled by S. Khrystyne Keane, K1SFA
ARRL News Editor
news@arrl.org
This feature — including convenient web links to useful information — is a concise monthly update of some of the things the ARRL is doing on behalf of its members. This installment covers the month of May.
More than 100 volunteers, officers and staff represented the ARRL in the ARRL EXPO at the 2013 Dayton Hamvention®. The even…
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Observing that “a decision in the near term with respect to the addition of [unlicensed National Information Infrastructure] U-NII devices to the 5.85-5.925 GHz band would be premature,” the ARRL has commented in response to an FCC Notice of Proposed Rule Making (ET Docket No. 13-49) that proposes to authorize U-NII use of an additional 195 megahertz of spectrum in the 5.35-5.47 GHz and 5.85-5….
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ARRL’s annual Field Day is June 26-27, 2010 See what Amateur Radio is really about. It’s not your Granddaddy’s radio any more and growing!
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There will be no ARRL Audio News on Thursday, May 30. The ARRL Letter will be distributed on its usual schedule. The Audio News will return on Thursday, June 6.
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I created this video using my Logitech webcam software.
After much testing, the ARRL will release a new version of Trusted QSL, the open-source development project responsible for developing and maintaining the three Logbook of the World (LoTW) client-side applications: TQSL, TQSLCert and the TrustedQSL library. After six weeks of public beta testing, version 1.14 is ready for official release and will be available for download from the ARRL website…
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The ARRL’s e-mail service provider is continuing to experience technical issues that are affecting timely delivery of e-mail messages sent via the arrl.net forwarding service, as well as e-mail sent to addresses in the arrl.org domain. This issue remains intermittent, but may result in delaying the delivery of some messages sent to both arrl.net and arrl.org addresses by hours. The ARRL’s e-mai…
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As part of the ARRL’s Centennial Celebration in 2014, the ARRL’s Public Relations Committee is sponsoring an “I am the ARRL” video contest. The Committee is looking for pairs of short video clips featuring ARRL members. One clip should show the radio amateur on the radio, while the other should show the amateur in his or her work setting saying “I am (name). I like (radio activity) and I am the…
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The ARRL’s e-mail service provider is continuing to experience technical issues that are affecting timely delivery of e-mail messages sent via the arrl.net forwarding service, as well as e-mail sent to addresses in the arrl.org domain. This issue remains intermittent, but may result in delaying the delivery of some messages sent to both arrl.net and arrl.org addresses by hours. The ARRL’s e-mai…
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The ARRL’s e-mail service provider is experiencing technical issues that are affecting timely delivery of e-mail messages sent via the arrl.net forwarding service, as well as e-mail sent to addresses in the arrl.org domain. This issue remains intermittent, but may result in delaying the delivery of some messages sent to both arrl.net and arrl.org addresses by hours. The ARRL’s e-mail provider i…
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Compiled by S. Khrystyne Keane, K1SFA
ARRL News Editor
news@arrl.org
This feature — including convenient web links to useful information — is a concise monthly update of some of the things the ARRL is doing on behalf of its members. This installment covers the month of April.
The FCC once again denied an ARRL Petition for Reconsideration regarding the Commission’s BPL rules.
ARRL leadership met w…
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The ARRL will present a variety of DX activities as part of the ARRL EXPO — the ARRL’s “show within a show” at the 2013 Dayton Hamvention®, to be held May 17-19 at Hara Arena, near Dayton, Ohio. Activities will include DXCC card checking and the opportunity to drop off QSL cards for the ARRL Outgoing QSL Bureau, as well as visits with representatives from the International Amateur Radio Union …
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Since 2001, 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 civilian employees of the federal government, US Postal Service workers and members of the military has generated almost $ 220,000 for ARRL programs. The CFC provides federal employees wi…
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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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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.
K3LR ARRL DX CONTEST 2013.
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Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) Administrator Craig Fugate, KK4INZ, met with ARRL leadership at FEMA Headquarters in Washington, DC last month. Fugate, an ARRL member, spoke with ARRL President Kay Craigie, N3KN, and ARRL Chief Executive Officer David Sumner, K1ZZ, as well as ARRL General Counsel Chris Imlay, W3KD, and ARRL Emergency Preparedness Manager Mike Corey, KI1U, about Amate…
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Robert “Smitty” Smithwick, W6CS (ex-W6JZU), of Los Altos Hills, California, passed away March 22. He was 92. An ARRL Life Member, Smithwick served as ARRL Pacific Division Vice Director from 1978-1981. A pediatric dentist by trade, Smithwick was one of the founders of Foothill College, a two-year community college in Los Altos Hills, and served as the first president of the college’s Board of T…
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Mary Lewis, W7QGP, of Seattle, Washington, passed away March 12. She was 85. An ARRL Life Member, Lewis served as ARRL Northwestern Division Director from 1981-1987 and 1991-1995. She also served as ARRL Section Communications Manager for Washington and ARRL Section Manager for Western Washington, as well as ARRL Assistant Section Manager and ARRL Affiliated Club Coordinator for the Western Was…
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scanning 40 meter band on ARRL DX contest march 3rd 2013 at 2100 UT.
As the ARRL draws closer to celebrating its Centennial in 2014, its Board of Directors has launched an unprecedented $ 10 million fundraising initiative to build the ARRL Endowment and strengthen the organization’s financial future. Led by the ARRL Board and an eight-member Second Century Campaign Committee — headed by David W. Brandenburg, K5RQ — the campaign has already raised more than $ 4 m…
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Last year, the ARRL UHF/Microwave Band Plan Committee prepared — and the ARRL Board of Directors approved — updated national band plans for the amateur bands between 902 MHz and 3.5 GHz after receiving extensive and helpful input from the user community. Last year, after the ARRL Executive Committee extended the Committee’s charter to include the 5 and 10 GHz bands, it solicited additional in…
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The ARRL Executive Committee (EC) held its first 2013 meeting Saturday, March 9 in Irving, Texas. The meeting’s agenda included items concerning the FCC and regulatory items, FCC enforcement, legislative issues and organizational matters.
FCC and Regulatory Matters
- Amateur Radio Enforcement: General Counsel Imlay pointed out that since the EC’s September 2012 meeting, there has been “encouraging…
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A few nice ARRL images I found:
Split Rock ARA Field Day 2007
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Split Rock Amateur Radio Association ARRL Field Day 2007
Horseshoe Lake, Roxbury Township, NJ
After more than 20,000 ARRL members had their arrl.net and arrl.org e-mails blocked by Microsoft, the issue has been resolved. According to ARRL Information Technology Manager Michael Keane, K1MK, Microsoft told the ARRL that the mail blockage from ARRL servers to Microsoft domains (including msn.com, hotmail.com, live.com and outlook.com) was mitigated as of Sunday, March 10. Microsoft caution…
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Four new poll questions have just been published on the QuickStats page on the ARRL website. Let your voice be heard!
Questions in this month’s QuickStats poll:
- Is your primary FM transceiver a single- or dual-band model?
- Do you consider your local Amateur Radio club dues to be too low, too high or just right?
- Does your flat screen TV generate interfering signals?
- How often do you back up the …
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Here is an (obviously) unrehearsed excursion into 10 meter QRP. With about average solar conditions (WWV#’s=104/3/1), I turned the power down to 4 watts on my Elecraft K2 (to tribander @ 36ft), flipped on my web cam and commenced to do a bit of search and pounce during the ARRL 10 meter contest. Starting at the bottom of the band and tuning my way to 28.023, I worked 9 stations in N and S America in about 10 minutes.* NOTE*: As Jorge’s comment points out: I mistakenly gave CW5W’s call as “CW4W” – one of several errors in my video narrations – ’tis one of the drawbacks of posting unedited clips.. I have some nice keying fumbles as well, “WYSIWYG”.
Receiving US stations on a Yaesu FT-990 and trapped dipole for 40-80-160m only 6m over ground.
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Compiled by S. Khrystyne Keane, K1SFA
ARRL News Editor
news@arrl.org
This feature — including convenient web links to useful information — is a concise monthly update of some of the things the ARRL is doing on behalf of its members. This installment covers the month of February.
Packets for the 2013 ARRL Field Day are now available.
The International Telecommunication Union is offering a free dow…
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The ARRL Executive Committee will meet Saturday, March 9 in Irving, Texas. See the link below for the meeting’s agenda.
ARRL President Kay Craigie, N3KN, serves as Chairman of the Executive Committee. Five Division Directors who are elected by the ARRL Board of Directors are also on the committee: Northwestern Division Director Jim Fenstermaker, K9JF; Central Division Director Dick Isely, W9GIG;…
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With the vast majority of ARRL members using Internet e-mail to contact Headquarters, the Contact page on the ARRL website at http://www.arrl.org/contact-arrl has been completely revamped with e-mail links to a wide variety of individuals and departments. This will make it easier for members to contact the correct person or department according to the nature of their question or concern.
Also, t…
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With the CW portion of the ARRL DX Contest now a series of fading dits and dahs in the memoires of participants, preparations for the Phone portion of the ARRL International DX Contest the weekend of March 2-3 are already underway.
The high bands were in good form for the CW contest this past weekend, with many stations reporting hundreds of QSOs on 15 and even 10 meters. Will these good conditi…
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Montana, Arizona and Iowa will be getting new Section Managers beginning April 1. In the only contested race this election cycle, George Forsyth, AA7GS, of Great Falls, beat out incumbent ARRL Montana Section Manager Doug Dunn, K7YD, of Livingston. Forsyth received 199 votes, while Dunn received 175 votes; Dunn has served 10 years as Section Manager. Forsyth — an ARRL Life Member and ARRL Volu…
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ARRL Headquarters will be closed in observance of Presidents Day on Monday, February 18. There will be no W1AW bulletin or code practice transmissions that day. ARRL Headquarters will reopen Tuesday, February 19 at 8 AM Eastern Standard Time. We wish everyone a safe Presidents Day holiday.
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Due to the incoming storm, ARRL Headquarters will close at 12 PM (EST) on Friday, February 8. Headquarters will re-open at 8 AM (EST) on Monday, February 11.
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A young lady Ham, some cool radio gear and a great cobbler recipe.
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ARRL Field Day 2012 PSA Bristol County Repeater Association Produced by KB1VYD and FRCTV
Video about ARTS Club W4CN ARRL Field Day 2010
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Compiled by S. Khrystyne Keane, K1SFA
ARRL News Editor
news@arrl.org
This feature — including convenient web links to useful information — is a concise monthly update of some of the things the ARRL is doing on behalf of its members. This installment covers the month of January.
The ARRL Board of Directors held its 2013 Annual Meeting January 18-19, 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana, under the chair…
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The ARRL Board of Directors held its 2013 Annual Meeting January 18-19, 2013 in New Orleans, Louisiana, under the chairmanship of President Kay Craigie, N3KN. The Board welcomed two newly elected members to the Board family: Hudson Division Director Mike Lisenco, N2YBB, and Northwestern Division Vice Director James Pace, K7CEX; Lisenco and Pace were elected in November 2012. At its meeting, the…
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John “Sully” Sullivan, W1HHR, of Columbia, Connecticut, passed away November 12, 2012. He was 83. An ARRL Life Member, Sullivan served as ARRL New England Division Director from 1975-1985. He was a veteran of the US Navy. A private service was held November 16 in Willimantic, Connecticut.
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The application period for ARRL Foundation Scholarships is fast approaching. The deadline for applications is February 1, 2013. According to ARRL Foundation Secretary Mary Hobart, K1MMH, the 2013 collection of scholarship awards is bigger than ever, with eight new scholarships added in 2012. “The annual awards range from $ 500 to $ 2500, with the estimated total dollar amount of all awards in exc…
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With the coming of more sunspots comes more DX. And when more amateurs work DX, the ARRL’s Membership and Volunteer Programs Department — especially the DXCC Desk and the ARRL Incoming and Outgoing QSL Bureaus — goes into high gear.
“In 2012, we saw an increase in the number of cards received from ARRL members that were sent to foreign QSL bureaus, as well as the number of cards we sent out to…
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ARRL policy is made by its Board of Directors. The 15 voting members of the Board are the Directors who are elected by the ARRL members in their respective divisions. The Board meets in January and July, usually in the Hartford area; however, this year, the meeting will take place in New Orleans, Louisiana. ARRL members also elect Vice Directors who may attend the meetings. ARRL Directors and V…
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In December, the ARRL Executive Committee reviewed grant applications for the ARRL’s Education & Technology Program (ETP), awarding equipment and resources valued at nearly $ 7000 to five schools. Two types of grants are awarded: ETP Grants and Progress Grants.
ETP School Station Grants
Grants for school radio stations are awarded to schools that provide a plan to use Amateur Radio as part of an …
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Four new poll questions have just been published on the QuickStats page on the ARRL website. Let your voice be heard!
Questions in this month’s QuickStats poll:
- How do you feel about the frequent use of macros during keyboard-to-keyboard digital contacts?
- Did your college have an Amateur Radio club?
- If you were applying for a job, would you mention your Amateur Radio experience on your resume?
- Ar…
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Compiled by S. Khrystyne Keane, K1SFA
ARRL News Editor
news@arrl.org
This feature — including convenient web links to useful information — is a concise monthly update of some of the things the ARRL is doing on behalf of its members. This installment covers the month of December.
The ARRL filed a Petition for Rulemaking with the FCC, asking it to amend Sections 2 and 97 of its rules and create a …
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Ham radio contest weekend for the ARRL DX SSB contest. Here I am snagging French station F6KHM on 15 meters using 100 watts into my MFJ-1786 magnetic loop mounted just 4 feet off the ground.
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This video was taken at the ARRL 2010 Field Day site for the Gulf Coast Amateur Radio Club located in New Port Richey. This was our first attempt at flying a helium balloon with a long wire attached. We used a single conductor 24 gauge wire of 130 feet long. Made successful voice and digital contacts around the country with other clubs. A big thanks to Bill NG4L who recorded and edit this video.
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DL7DS (myself) using the FT-817 for some QRP-Tests (50 QSO’s with QRP) during ARRL Contest 2009. Kind of a experience switching from 800 Watts to 5 Watt. Thanks for QSO’s: MW9A, OZ5E, US5D, YT8A, MJ4K, DL0AT. 73’s de Dan, DL7DS
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ARRL Pacific Division Ham of the Year award to John Ronan K3ZJJ.
2005 ARRL INTERNATIONAL DX CONTEST – EA8URL QTH: URE LAS PALMAS TEAM: EC4DX – EA4TD – EC8ADU – EC8ADW – EC8AUA EA8AUW
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The ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications 2013 Hardcover
The ARRL Handbook for Radio Communications is widely recongnized as being the standard reference among radio amateurs and other technologists-experimenter, engineers and students. It’s filled with essential information from accross the expanse of radio communication fundamentals, covering nearly every aspect of radio and antenna design, equipment construction, and station assembly. CD-ROM included.
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ARRL Headquarters will be closed Monday, December 24 and Tuesday, December 25, 2012 in observance of Christmas, and Tuesday, January 1, 2013 in observance of New Year’s Day. There will be no W1AW bulletins or code practice transmissions those days. There will be no ARRL Letter or ARRL Audio News on Thursday, December 20 and 27, 2012 and January 3, 2013; both the Letter and Audio News will retur…
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I made a few QSOs in two ham radio contests (competitions) over the weekend of 21st/22nd February 2009. These were in the French ‘REF’ contest and the American ARRL DX CW Contest.
Audio Recording during ARRL SSB Contest 2010. ( SOAB HP) Op: LU9ESD Manu www.qrz.com/db/lu9esd Band: 14 Mhz. RIG: Yaesu FT-920 Antenna: 3 element tribander @ 36 mtr. Amplifier: Yaesu FL-2100Z (500 W.)
Listening to 6m during the 2009 ARRL VHF QSO PARTY.Listening from EN82 Windsor Ontario Canada
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