ARROW is getting ready to build a bunch of PicoKeyers and then get on 2m FM and work MCW. The PicoKeyers have an MCW mode that makes this very simple to accomplish. This promises to be a lot of fun.
At our monthly breakfast this morning, Jon, KG6URI, noted that if you have a Yaesu [...]

This weekend, the big event was ARROW’s special event station at the Saline Depot Museum. The website notes,
The Saline Railroad Depot, with its freight house, telegraph, and passenger facilities, served as a crucial link in the economic transformation that took place between Saline’s rural hinterlands and the outside world.
Without the access the Depot afforded, [...]

From ARRL Headquarters Newington CT July 21, 2005
To all radio amateurs,
The FCC has proposed dropping the 5 WPM Morse code element as a requirement to obtain an Amateur Radio license of any class. The Commission included the recommendation in a July 19 Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) in WT Docket 05-235, [...]

Tonight, I worked a couple of stations at 28 wpm, a new high for me. The first was W2XS. I had just turned on the rig when I heard him calling CQ. I gauged his speed to be around 28 wpm, and when I heard no one reply to his second CQ, I thought I’d [...]

Yesterday evening I met with Neil K8IT, who’s running for Great Lakes Division Director. It’s almost amazing how similarly our ideas are about how we would do things differently.
Perhaps Neil’s biggest hot button is the low percentage of amateurs that are ARRL members. This currently stands at about 23%. Despite this low percentage, Neil [...]

At Dayton, I picked up a copy of 10-10 International’s newsletter. Here’s a nugget from there:

Got Noise?
Got a problem with too much noise in your mobile HF radio? Try these websites. Seems that even the Customer Service reps for thes ecompanies don’t know about them.

General Motors
Chrysler
Ford

The Ford document looks like it’s the best, but they [...]

Guest opinion submitted by Idaho Senator Mike Crapo
(first Published in The Hill, July 13, 2005)
Communication has taken many forms: beacon fires alerting assassins to Agamemnon’s return to Mycenae; a lone Athenian runner covering 150 miles in two days to request help from Sparta; Genghis Khan’s invention of the “Pony Express;” Morse Code, the telegraph, telephone, [...]

It’s very sad–but understandable, I guess–that countries around the world are cutting back on their foreign-language broadcasting. The latest to bite the dust is the foreign service of Radio Slovakia. Being a Slovak-American, this one hits home.
I listen to their broadcasts via the Web all the time, and apparently that service is also to [...]

This weekend, I actually spent more time off the radio than on it, as I attended the 2005 Michigan Section Campout. This event, started seven years ago as a “retreat” for the Michigan Section leadership, but has been open to all radio amateurs for several years now. Ably organized by John Freeman, N8ZE, it’s a [...]

I was listening to NPR’s All Things Considered while eating dinner this evening and heard an obituary for Ernest Lehman, the man who wrote the screenplays for “The Sound of Music,” “North by Northwest,” and “West Side Story.” The host was interviewing Jeffrey Hayden, a long time friend, who happened to mention that Lehman [...]