Here’s a great resource for amateur radio operators. The best thing about it is that it’s free! Unfortunately, it only runs on PCs, but since the FORTRAN source code is also free, perhaps I can figure out a way to adapt it to the Mac.

VOACAP is a free professional HF prediction program from NTIA/ITS, originally [...]

I am an amateur radio operator and subscribe to several mailing lists that discuss building and testing amateur radio equipment, including the Elecraft mailing list and Flying Pigs QRP Club mailing list. I love these lists because they’re chock full of practical information from amateurs who are actively building stuff.
One item that is frequently discussed [...]

About a month ago, I commented on the graying of amateur radio. I got the data from a subscriber survey done by World Radio magazine. Below, is all of the data they sent me.
The data was tabulated in November 2005 by Applied Analysis, an independent firm. This company mailed the survey to 1,600 random subscribers. [...]

I recently had the opportunity to play around with the innards of my Heathkit MicroMatic Keyer. I couldn’t find the manual for it, but fortunately, I was able to locate the schematic on the Net.
Unfortunately, Heathkit schematics only call out the Heathkit part number and not the generic part number. For example, U7 [...]

Adrian, EA5/G0KOM writes to the IC-735 mailing list:
Just for everyone’s info I have resurrected the old Icom Classic site and its slowly being built up at the moment, I am preparing some new articles for it and am still looking for any content any of you might have that we could include on the site, [...]

When I first used this map page, I couldn’t believe how many hams there actually are in this area. Now, I’m wondering why more of them aren’t in our amateur radio club?

This from Scott KD7PJQ, via the SolidCpyCW mailing list in response to a thread on the reasoning behind Q signals:
Although this doesn’t explain a rhyme or reason to the Q signals, I thought the following was very intersting. From Bill Neutzling’s B-24 Liberator Site. The site includes training manual for radio operators–the Radio Operators’ [...]

Brian Murrey, KB9BVN, the esteemed editor of the Flying Pigs reports:
I have just uploaded the latest and greatest issue of the BBQ (Bacon Bits Quarterly).
Thanks to everyone that made a contribution this quarter! All in all it’s a pretty good issue if I do say so myself. I am now accepting articles for the [...]

As the Michigan Section Affiliated Club Coordinator, I need to send e-mail to all the clubs in Michigan from time to time. To do this, I need to generate a list of all the clubs with an e-mail address. To generate this list, I have been going to the affiliated clubs search page on the [...]

First off - HAPPY NEW YEAR!
This weekend started out with the monthly ARROW breakfast. As it was on a holiday weekend, I wasn’t expecting much of a turnout, but there were at least 20 of us. Jack, AB8RK, and I were “encouraging” one of our members who got her General license last spring to get [...]