Several folks have been praising a new website, Learn CW Online. This website has the following features:

Koch Method CW Course
Highscores — compare your results with others
Speed Practice (Code Groups, Plain Text Training, Callsign Training)
Convert text to CW (does not require a login)
Forum for user discussions and feedback

This looks like a great resource for Mac users, [...]

As I’ve reported before, we have been awarded a $10,000 grant by the IEEE for setting up an amateur radio station at the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum. $3,000 has been allotted for a transceiver. There are a lot of options, so I’m asking for some help.  Here’s some of my thinking so far:
1. Don’t purchase [...]

From Weaver’s Words, August 27, 2008:
Michigan Affiliated Club Coordinator Dan Romanchik, KB6NU (that’s me!), will present a Webinar titled Kit Building.  This Webinar will be on Monday, September 22 at 8 PM. This online session will provide an excellent introduction to kit building even for hams who are convinced kit-building is beyond their ability.
Great Lakes [...]

I’ve written before about Tom Kneitel, K2AES, known to some Electronics Illustrated readers as “Uncle Tom.” I’m sorry to report that he’s passed. His stuff was always a lot of fun to read.
The Orlando Sentinel article points out that, ‘He was the grandson of Max Fleischer, the cartoonist who had a Miami animation studio [...]

It was a very busy ham radio weekend:

Operated from the museum Saturday morning from 1400Z – 1800Z. The best DX was KL7WP/7 from Portland. I got a little excited when we first made contact because I was hoping to get the Alaska contact.
We had two very cool visitors. The first was a little girl and [...]

About a month ago, 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 [...]

The BBC reports that Morse Code is Alive and Well (in Great Britain, anyway).
I’d rather osculate than oscillate.

Threads on attaching PL-259s to coax are a mainstay of most amateur radio mailing lists. If you subscribe to as many as I do, you see at least five or six every year. This last week, yet another one popped up on the HamRadioHelpGroup. Below, is, imho, the most useful reply:
A good tool for this [...]

KE9VEE reminds us that this coming weekend is the Hawaii QSO Party.
Should be lots of HI stations on that are eager to work you.
ALOHA!

From WB9QZB via the HamRadioHelpGroup mailing list:
The ARRL/TAPR DCC (Digital Communications Conference) is being held in Chicago on September 26 – 28, 2008.
The DCC will be at the Elk Grove Village Holiday Inn located in Chicago’s northwest suburbs near O’Hare airport with a free airport to hotel shuttle and easily accessible from major interstate [...]