Central Philippines earthquake update Communications have been set up on HF as the emergency activity of amateur radio becomes established in the earthquake and landslide hit areas. Chief Operating Officer for IARU society PARA, Eddie Valdez DU1EV said that Ham Emergency Radio Operations (HERO... full article...

Earthquake hits, radio amateurs act Effects continue across the central Philippines after a 6.8 magnitude earthquake struck triggering landslides with dozens of people killed and many trapped in toppled homes. Chief Operating Officer for IARU society PARA, Eddie Valdez DU1EV said ham radio ope... full article...

Morse code not on the way out Five years ago, on February 23, 2007, the Federal Communications Commission took action against the thorny question of mandatory code licence testing. Writing in the latest CQ magazine Rich Moseson W2VU has an article 'No-Code Plus Five Years: An Assessment' which... full article...

Twitter telegraph a reality Just when you think you know about technology convergence, along comes the simple Arduino project. It involves a Morse code key, somewhat an old switch, with a new use in the form of modern Twitter. Becoming a Tworse key you can send standard Twitter messages thr... full article...

SumbandilaSat amateur radio operation may resume soon Ingenuity and innovation by the SumbandilaSat ground control team has resulted in bringing the satellite back to life with a real possibility that Amateur Radio communication may resume next month while the satellite is in sunlight. The gro... full article...

On November 18, the FCC released a Report and Order (R&O), defining new rules for the 60 meter (5 MHz) band. These rules are in response to a Petition for Rulemaking (PRM) filed by the ARRL more than five years ago and a June 2010 Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM). In the February 3 edition of th... full article...

While two hurdles still remain to be cleared, the effort to gain a new amateur medium frequency (MF) allocation reached a major milestone on Thursday, February 2 at the 2012 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-12) in Geneva, Switzerland. According to ARRL Chief Executive Officer David Sumn... full article...

IARU Special WRC Report No. 2 Rod Stafford W6ROD, Secretary International Amateur Radio Union, has released a further report on WRC-12 taking place in Geneva. The procedures used by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) before and during a World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC) se... full article...