One of the great things about Field Day are the stories. Every year, I add a story or two to my repertoire. This year is no exception.
Story #1 starts about 1:30 pm on Saturday. I was at my post at the public information table/GOTA station. We had been ready to rock and roll for at [...]

Thanks to Frank, K0BRA, for pointing this out via the AMRAD mailing list. He writes:
Now there is a Wiki on connector pinouts [and cable wiring]. If you are into making cables to hook this to that and need pin numbers you may find this makes it quick and easy. There is a lot of [...]

Mike, K5MGR posted this chart to the ARRL PR mailing list.
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He writes:
Hello everyone!
I posted the image below as available after a fellow on the “boatanchors” listserver asked for a copy of it.
It’s from my 1957 copy of the League’s Learning The Radiotelegraph Code.
The League got it from earlier Signal [...]

Whilst looking up information on this Sunday’s hamfest in Monroe (http://www.mcrca.org/hamfest.htm), I came across their Elmer page. On it, they list a variety of topics with the name, call, and phone number of someone who can answer questions on that topic.
My club something similar once, but it was less than successful. I think that the [...]

According to a report on the Science@NASA website, researchers think they have discovered the reason behind the dearth of sunspots. At an American Astronomical Society press conference yesterday in Boulder, Colorado, the researchers announced that a jet stream deep inside the sun is migrating slower than usual through the star’s interior, giving rise to the [...]

In the last five days, I’ve worked a bunch of stations whose callsigns spell words:

On 6/12, I worked Roy, WA2SON. A day later, I heard WB4DAD calling CQ , but unfortunately, he couldn’t hear me. I have worked him before, though.
On 6/13, I worked Chano, EA8UP, in the Canary Islands. I actually worked him on [...]

From the May 2009 issue of the ARRL E-Newsletter for Registered Instructor and Teachers:
As I reported earlier, the ARRL began developing a guide to help new hams choose their first radio at the urging of licensing instructors generally, and with special impetus from David Haycock, KI6AWR and Greg Widin, K0GW. The guide was recently finalized, [...]

WAGA, Atlanta, GA, invited its first chief engineer, Paul Cram, K4IO, to throw the switch that cut the station over to digital TV. Cram will be 100 this year.
WAGA began broadcasting in 1949. See a short video of the switchover, which includes some history of the station.

After the class yesterday, Scott, W1BIC, mentioned that now what we need is a one-day General class. I’ve always been more skeptical about doing a cram session for the General Class exam, but after batting the idea around a little, I think that there might be a way to do this. The idea wouldn’t be [...]

Yesterday, Bruce, KD8APB, and I taught yet another One-Day Tech Class. This time, nine of the twelve students passed.
One of the students that failed was a ten- or eleven-year-old boy who failed by only one or two questions. He says that he plans to take the test again at a regularly-scheduled test session tomorrow. [...]