The ARRL has asked for input from Radio Amateurs on their proposal to open the ham bands to wide-band (2.8 KHZ) data signals. I think this is the first time, in the last 10+ years, that I remember the ARRL asking for radio amateur's input. mailto:HF-Digital-Bandplanning@arrl.org Congratulations to the... More...

Series Seven Episode Five of the ICQ Amateur / Ham Radio Podcast - DX Heat & Programming Software has been released. The latest news, Martin (M1MRB) and Colin (M6BOY) discuss the relevance of Amateur Radio, Martin (M1MRB) discusses DX Heat with Tobias (DH1TW) and Martin Rothwell (M0SGL) reviews programming... More...

ISS HamTV success On Saturday, March 8 test transmissions were made on 2422.0 MHz using the HamTV equipment on the International Space Station (ISS) The video was successfully received and was web streamed to a global audience via the Britsh Amateur Television Club (BATC) server at http://batc.tv/ch_live.php?ch=4... More...

Industry Canada rolls out new Amateur Radio exam generator and updated question bank On March 6th, Industry Canada released a new set of amateur radio exam questions based on recommendations made by RAC and launched a new exam generator. "This is good news that we were eagerly anticipating." says Geoff... More...

172530Salvation Army puts new EDS Satern station 'on the air' The Salvation Army has announced that the FCC recently approved a new call sign for a newly created SATERN station located in the Salvation Army's Alabama-Louisiana-Mississippi (ALM) Division's Emergency Disaster Services center. SATERN,... More...

The World Wide Radio Operators Foundation (WWROF) is pleased to present the popular "Contesting Tips for Little Pistols" by Dan Zeitlin K2YWE. Dan shares his collected wisdom and lessons learned for the little pistol. Topics included include: - Elements of Success - Contest Basics - a refresher - Strategy... More...

The free logging software Log4OM will include full support for SOTA in the next release including SOTA ID, Association, Region, Summit name, Points and Bonus points fields. We see SOTA as one of the fastest growing sectors in the ham radio awards and we will eventually include full award submission... More...

Ham Video now installed and ready for commissioning The Ham Video transmitter has been installed in the Columbus module of the International Space Station March 6, 2014 at approximately 10.00 UTC. The transmitter was powered on briefly and all control LEDs were nominal. Ham Video is declared ready for... More...