Here are some miscellaneous observations from my operations over the past week or so:

W1MX Turns 100. The MIT Radio Society, whose callsign is W1MX turned 100 on April 30, 2009. There was a great article on the history of the club in the April 2009 issue of QST. I had just read that article last [...]

One of Make: magazine’s guest bloggers, is, as it turns out, a ham radio operator. Not only that, she’s female and 22–not your typical ham.
Read her Make: report on Dayton here.
Read her personal blog posting on Dayton here.

WD6CNF has a number of cool-looking programs on his website – hotamateurprograms.com. Most of them are Vista-compatible, and they are all available for free, including:

CW Decoder
Audio Spectrum Analyzer
Audio Generator/Audio Spectrum Analyze
Digital Voice Keyer
Simple Windows Packet Controller
DSP Audio Filter
Instrument Tuner
Dual Channel Oscilloscope
Dual Function Generator

I plan to download and try out the CW decoder at the museum. [...]

A couple of weeks ago, I worked N4QR on 40m CW. I could tell by the tone of his signal that he was operating a homebrew transmitter. There wasn’t any 60 Hz on his signal, and it didn’t chirp exactly, but I could tell it wasn’t the pure tone you get out of today’s radios.
I [...]

From Terry, WA0ITP, via the qrp-.org mailing list:
Do you need an enclosure slightly larger than an Altoids tin? Would you like to see your project after building it, instead of hiding it? If so, this enclosure is for you! This is an Altoids tin on steroids. Check it out here.

One of these nifty enclosures is [...]

On Linked In’s ARRL Ham Radio Operators Group, there’s a discussion about Field Day titled, “The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly.”
In his reply, Rick, W6IFA, notes:
I would remind all the readers of the post to go to the ARRL web site and read what the ARRL intends this day to be.
“Field Day is [...]

For our Ham Radio at the Hands-On Museum project, we want to set up a television station. My first thought was to buy a transmitter from PC Electronics that sends standard-scan analog TV. Then, I got to thinking, why bother with that? If our goal is to show that we’re at least up with current [...]

There is a section of the Wired magazine website devoted to how-to topics. There you’ll find information on how to compile software, photograph the stars, and a bunch of other things, including how to become a radio amateur.
The interesting thing is that this site is actually a wiki, and your contributions are not [...]

On May 13, the FCC posted the first list of enforcement actions since Laura Smith took over as FCC Special Counsel. The 11 RFI-related letters to energy providers were sent between February 18 and April 1, 2009, and the 7 warning letters to individuals were sent between February 18 and March
30, 2009.
The seven warning letters [...]

Seems to me that this should be free, but I guess the ARRL is trying to recoup some costs of providing the course. I guess 20 bucks isn’t so bad…..Dan
Press release from the ARRL on Saturday, May 16, 2009:
Assembled by a team of public relations experts, ARRL’s PR-101 will provide volunteer Public Information Officers (PIOs) [...]