From the monthly (?) newsletter of Great Lakes Division Director, Jim Weaver, K8JE:
For many years, FCC did not provide feedback to ARRL on Official Observer (OO) reports it received. This has changed. Because of legal constraints, the feedback isn’t very detailed, but it is being given.
In June there were a total of 692 [...]

Tim, N9PUZ writes to the HamRadioHelpGroup mailing list:
With new HF rigs being 100% solid state these days, the need for a dummy load in some shacks has gone away. However, if you have an amplifier they are very useful as you can do most of your tuning off-air and avoid causing QRM.
Recently, I bought a [...]

KD8LQF:
I’ve worked Arun twice this past week, once from home and once from the Hands-On Museum. What’s notable about these contacts? Well, for one thing, Arun is someone I’ve cyber-Elmered. He contacted me by e-mail about getting his Tech license, and after swapping a couple of e-mails, I found out that he passed the test [...]

On the qrp-l.org mailing list, someone asked about signal generator/function generator kits. Ken, N9VV, came up with the following list:

Sine, square, and triangle wave signal generator electronic kit MK105, $5.69
Elenco FG-600K, $45
Elenco FG-500, $41
DEV-09002 Function Generator Kit, $35

As always, there was a lot of back and forth on the topic. One guy noted that none [...]

Unless you work the digital modes a lot, how do you tell which signal is PSK 31 and which is Feld Hell? By going to K2NCC’s YouTube page, of course! Frank has posted examples of nine different modes, including Domino, Feld Hell, SSTV, and MFSK16. What’s cool about these posts is that you not only [...]

Last summer, we had some discussion about doing an Extra Class study guide, similar to my No-Nonsense Tech and General Class study guides. I kinda dropped the ball on that, being really busy with other things. I’m sorry about that.
In the meantime, I’ve been doing some thinking about how to approach this, and I’m going [...]

While his family went to the beach, WD8DAS visited the sites of the old and new Heathkit plants in St. Joseph, Michigan.

Yesterday, when I went down to the shack, the hard drive in the Mac iBook G4 that I’d been using in my shack for logging and PSK31 was making a terrible noise. I turned off the computer and turned it back on, but just more of the same.
This wasn’t totally unexpected. A couple of months [...]

I thought this YouTube video was kind of cute. It’s a collage of ham radio photos accompanied by the tune “CQ Serenade.” There’s even a French version.

On the ARRL PR mailing list, Woody, K3VSA, writes:
One thing almost all ham radio groups have prided themselves on is that we’re open to all ages, a fact I always stress in my PIO work. In fact, kids have always been a major source of recruitment of new hams. That being the case, we [...]