In a recent column in Electronic Design magazine, editor Don Tuite, NR7X, said the following:
Hypothesis: Doing away with the code requirement last March has completed a rejuvenation of ham radio that was triggered by the World Trade Center attacks and Katrina. I’m looking for reader comments yea and nay.
He goes on to say how in [...]

As we all know—or should since there are several questions on the tests about this—you are authorized to transmit when your name and call sign appears in the FCC’s Universal Licensing System database, NOT when your license arrives in the mail. Even so, it’s sometimes nice to have a piece of paper attesting to your [...]

Unlike a lot of amateurs, I’ve never been all that excited about space shots. It is notable, however, that today marks the 50th anniversary of NASA’s birth. Wired.com has created a series of articles to commemorate this event, including this gallery of classic space program photos. Even if you don’t include all the fun the [...]

One of the most unpleasant tasks when making a kit is stripping the leads of a toroid. Well, now the guys at QRPKits.com, have come up with a simple way to turn an old soldering iron into a mini solder pot. This looks like a really neat way to make this task a lot easier.

I’ve written before about our work at the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum, most recently in these posts:

What’s Happening at the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum
My First Ham Video

Well, a couple of days ago, we got some great news: WE GOT THE GRANT FROM THE IEEE! They awarded us $10,000 to develop the station and several “tabletop [...]

Well, as you can see, I am running again for the ARRL Board of Directors. I ran three years ago, and then I wrote:
Amateur radio and the ARRL face a number of difficult problems. Two of the most urgent are declining membership (currently less than 25% of licensed amateur radio operators are ARRL members) [...]

Last October, I purchased a used, iBook G4 Mac laptop and promptly started looking for logging programs. I found one that was kind of expensive (MacLoggerDX); one that was free, but didn’t want to work so well (RUMLog); and one that worked OK and cost somewhere in between the first two (Aether).
I ended up [...]

Dr. Arnie Coro, of Radio Havana’s DXers Unlimited, noted on his July 22/23, 2008 show:
The top quality microphones used by cellphone manufacturers are ideal for amateur radio use. A broken down, or an obsolete cellphone is a low cost source of two highly valuable devices… a nice high quality electret microphone element, and an also [...]

I was looking through the ads in the back of the August QST, and I was reminded of how I used to do this as a kid. I would scour the ads, looking for some company or product I hadn’t seen before, then circling the appropriate number on the reader service card. Of course, now [...]

This morning, I drove over to Utica, MI to attend the General Motors ARC “Trunk Swap.” They charged $5/car, whether you were selling anything or not. They were also selling donuts for a buck apiece. the thing started at 7am and ended at 10am.
I didn’t count exactly, but I’m guessing that there were maybe 15 [...]