I try to make at least three CW QSOs every day, but some days it’s harder than others. Tonight, for example, I got on after the CQ WW DX contest ended at 0000Z, but band conditions were really not good for domestic contacts.
For example, I worked N2ATB near Philadelphia, and in our previous five [...]

I worked this event last year, and it was a lot of fun…Dan
From The ARRL Letter, Vol. 24, No. 46, Nov 25, 2005
ARRL-NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE SKYWARN RECOGNITION DAY IS DECEMBER 3
The seventh annual SKYWARN Recognition Day (SRD) special event will take place Saturday, December 3, from 0000 until 2400 UTC (ie, starting Friday, December 2 [...]

Well, last weekend started out poorly here at KB6NU, as I got word that I had failed to win the election for vice director of the Great Lakes Division. As several people pointed out to me, though, my opponent had previously been elected to the position (although he wasn’t the incumbent), and had even served [...]

In the latest issue of the K7RA Propagation newsletter, Tad Cook writes that you can get the latest WWV geo-alert via the Internet and by telephone:
The alerts are transmitted at 18 minutes
after each hour, and you can also read the latest copy at
http://sec.noaa.gov/ftpdir/latest/wwv.txt. If you want it via
telephone, call 303-497-3235. The broadcasts are updated every [...]

Dennis, KT8X, really hates QSL cards. Some of that has to do with his battles with the 8th district QSL bureau, but some of it has to do with his dislike of paperwork. I share his dislike of paperwork, but I do like to get QSL cards.
Last Saturday, I got two cards for my collection [...]

This is a little late as far as news goes, but while it’s an interesting idea, I’m not sure that it’s workable….
“National SOS Radio Network” ready to start, based on millions of FRS “Family Radio Service” radios already in use plus 675,000 ham radio operators across America.
“National SOS Radio Network” provides instant, reliable, emergency communications [...]

Last night, I was scheduled to give a talk on amateur radio at a meeting of the local section of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE). Being engineers, I thought that I’d skip a lot of the preliminaries and launch right into some of the cool, new things about amateur radio, including PSK31, [...]

This was a low-key weekend on the radio here at KB6NU.
It started out with an ARROW board of directors meeting at 9 am, Saturday morning. I called the meeting to discuss the slate of officers for 2006. To be honest, I was kind of worried that we’d have to really do some finagling to [...]

On the ARRL PR mailing list, there’s been a lot of talk about an artice in Fire Chief magazine. The article advocates the licensing of firefighters so that they can use amateur radio repeaters in case their fancy, new 800-MHz systems fail or become overloaded in an emergency. Some on the list have noted that [...]