Jim, K8ELR, forwarded this to me this afternoon:
KURDISTAN DXPEDITION NEEDS MORSE OPS
Paul Ewing, N6PSE, says that he has several open positions for CW operators on the DXpedition team headed to Kurdistan in April. Ewing says that costs for this DXpedition are quite reasonable and they will be operating from a very safe and secure facility. [...]

In my e-mail just now, I got the following:
Hi , Daniel
My name is Rick, and my call sign is XXXX. I’ve been a contester since 2004 when I became a ham, and I love it!
I wanted you to see this information from a friend of mine, Trippy, about a new contest that will be [...]

From the 2/18/10 ARRL Letter:
The ARRL Rookie Roundup is designed to help newly licensed amateurs build their operating skills on HF. It is a contest specifically for those new to Amateur Radio, similar to the ARRL Novice Roundup that ran from 1952 until 1995. The Rookie Roundup brings the fun and Elmering of the old [...]

Jim, K8ELR, has really gotten into operating the digital modes down at the museum. So, I was interested to see a notice on the HamRadioHelpGroup mailing list that the KB7TBT SSTV Web Page was back online. On this page, James, KB7TBT displays a number of live feeds.
Don, KB9UMT, the list moderator, asked if someone [...]

Some random notes about operations here at KB6NU and WA2HOM over the past couple of weeks:

Novices! In the past two weeks, I’ve worked two Novices. Both were a little shakey, but I’m glad to see them still getting on the air. I guess I fell into the trap that anyone who still had a Novice [...]

The Transistor Museum’s tagline is “Dedicated to Preserving the History of the Greatest Invention of the 20th Century,” and it does a pretty good job of it. On this website you’ll find articles on:

The First Germanium Hobbyist Transistors
Early Transistors at Motorola
The First Transistor in Space
Norman Krim, the Father of the CK722 Transistor
a whole lot more

Like [...]

Who says teenagers aren’t into ham radio? Check out TeenRadioJourney.Com. Written and produced by Paul, KC9QYB, this website contains both blog posts and podcasts for teenaged ham radio ops (as well as us OFs as well.)
The latest version, episode 14, talks about three aspects of Elmering, including:

promoting the hobby,
Elmering, and
study help.

There’s lots of other good [...]

Here’s a story that appeared on the University of Miami’s website a couple of days ago:
Like so many post-quake emergencies, this one was urgent. Doctors at the University of Miami’s hospital in Haiti knew a 13-year-old survivor of the January 12 cataclysm would not live without surgery. But they were not equipped to perform it.
With [...]

In conjunction with the Dayton Hamvention, the QRP Amateur Radio Club (QRP-ARCI) hosts what they call Four Days in May (FDIM). The highlight of FDIM is the seminar on Thursday, the day before the Hamvention starts. I’ve attended twice, and will most likely be attending this year. The seminar includes sessions on any number [...]

From Jay Nugent, WB8TKL, AEC Washtenaw — NTS Liasion & Packet Operations, Michigan Section ASM for Digital Technologies:
Over the last couple weeks the Michigan Section National Traffic System (NTS-Digital) has been experimenting with using the digital mode “Olivia” on 75-meters to pass NTS formatted messages. Attendance has varied from just a handfull of participants [...]