The winner of the March 2015 QST Cover Plaque award is Kai Siwiak, KE4PT, for his article “An Off Center Fed Dipole for Portable Operation on 40 to 6 Meters.”
The QST Cover Plaque Award — given to the author or authors of the most popular 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 April i…
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NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC) has reported that a brief radio blackout “event” occurred on March 29 at 1748 UTC, the result of an “impulsive” or short-lived R3 (strong) solar flare. Extreme ultraviolet radiation from the X-1 class event “sent waves of ionization rippling through Earth’s upper atmosphere and disturbed the normal propagation of terrestrial radio transmissions,” Sp…
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Because of a technical error, many of the hyperlinks in the March 27 edition of The ARRL Letter distributed via e-mail were broken. Hyperlinks are corrected in the ARRL website edition of The ARRL Letter.
We are e-mailing a revised edition of The ARRL Letter (dated March 28, 2014) to subscribers, which should arrive later today.
We apologize for any inconvenience.
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The VK9MT Mellish Reef DXpedition is preparing to take to the airwaves this weekend. “Team Mellish” has arrived at Mellish Reef “after 3 miserable days of nasty seas,” a report from the group said. Their equipment is going ashore, and VK9MT should be on the air “sometime” on Saturday, March 29, a day later than initially announced.
The operators will not communicate via e-mail during their 10 da…
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The ARRL Centennial “W1AW WAS” operations that are taking place throughout 2014 from each of the 50 states will relocate at 0000 UTC on March 12 (the evening of March 11 in US time zones), from Idaho and Kentucky to Arizona (W1AW/7) and Ohio (W1AW/8). During 2014 W1AW will be on the air from every state (at least twice) and most US territories, and it will be easy to work all states solely by c…
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The ARRL Centennial “W1AW WAS” operations that are taking place throughout 2014 from each of the 50 states will relocate at 0000 UTC on March 5 (the evening of March 4 in US time zones), from Kansas and Washington to Idaho (W1AW/7) and Kentucky (W1AW/4). W1AW/7 will be on the air during the 2014 Idaho QSO Party March 8. During 2014 W1AW will be on the air from every state (at least twice) and m…
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The SSB weekend of the ARRL International DX Contest is March 1-2 (UTC), and the DX will be looking for you! In this major event on the radiosport calendar, operators in the US and Canada work stations everywhere else in the world. It’s not only an opportunity to pit your station and operating skills against those of your peers but to expand your knowledge of propagation on the HF and MF bands …
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Screen Captures from HAMCAP – DX ATLAS. Propagation from XF4 on 20 meters.
The Arduino is connected to the server of the Reverse Beacon Network and gets the actual data and displays them on an RGB shield. Description, filters and so…
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The winner of the March QST Cover Plaque Award is Carl Luetzelschwab, K9LA for his article “The Sun and the Ionosphere.” Congratulations Carl! 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 April issue today.
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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
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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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The digital version of the March QST is now available to ARRL members. The digital version includes many features not available in the print version, such as:
Every issue of QST is filled with the news and features you need to keep active in Amateur Rad…
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The MicroHAMS Digital Conference will be held Saturday, March 23 at the Microsoft Studios West Campus in Redmond, Washington. The conference, which focuses on digital networking, will feature two local efforts that are leveraging off-the-shelf wireless networking technology for Amateur Radio: NW-MESH — a spin-off of the ARRL HSMM program — and the HamWAN project that is attempting to provide …
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On the Bay: March 7, 2012
When first activated, the beacon sends a “closed loop” DSC alert on the designated DSC VHF frequency — this is a DSC distress relay call (with nature of distress “man overboard”)— addressed to a particular Maritime Mobile Service Identity (MMSI).
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In 1912, Hotel Bend clerk hikes 63 miles east to homestead claim
The stock of equipment stored in the plane included a kite which Miss Earhart could send aloft as a distress signal in the daytime. The first scheduled stop is Honolulu, 2400 miles away, and beyond there, to Howland Island. Putnam plans to stay close …
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Government moves to tackle commuter woes
Reflecting their distress, an annual survey of more than 3100 regular bus and MRT commuters by UniSIM last October shows satisfaction levels have dropped, especially for buses. — ST PHOTO: ALPHONSUS CHERN By Goh Chin Lian Commuters can expect a …
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