Last October, I purchased a used, iBook G4 Mac laptop and promptly started looking for logging programs. I found one that was kind of expensive (MacLoggerDX); one that was free, but didn’t want to work so well (RUMLog); and one that worked OK and cost somewhere in between the first two (Aether).
I ended up [...]

EE Times has just published a very cool article with some history on SuitSat 1 and some design info on SuitSat 2. Unfortunately, they don’t give a date for the launch of the second SuitSat.  Here’s an excerpt from the article:
The experience proved so interesting that the engineers enthusiastically signed up for SuitSat-2. Leveraging their [...]

I guess it’s because it’s the Fourth of July weekend, but I just worked four special event stations in a row, with no special effort on my part.
The first one was VE2008VQ. This station is celebrating the 400th anniversary of the founding of Quebec City, Quebec. I worked this station on 30m CW, and [...]

Field Day 2008, although a little wet, was a blast as usual. I say a little wet, but we really got a lot of rain this year. In fact, I thought we were going to be late in getting things all set up because it started pouring about 9:30 am, just as we were in [...]

If not, this video should get you pumped up:

For a list of Field Day locations near you, go to the ARRL FD Locator.
Thanks to W1AGP, the ARRL’s PR Guy for the link, and to stormspotterkwp—whoever you are—for producing the video.

Friday night, I switched over to 30m, tuned around a bit and heard W8UM working SP3EPK. W8UM is the ham station of the University of Michigan’s ham radio club and probably about two miles, as the crow flies, from here. W8UM is a great station. They have a 30-ft. tower on the roof of [...]

Well, I got back from three days at the Dayton Hamvention last night, and as usual, it was a real blast.
As I did two years ago, I started this year’s event with QRP-Amateur Radio Club International’s Four Days in May seminars. This series of seminars lasts from 8:30 until about 4:00 pm and are [...]

I don’t usually mention special event stations—unless it’s one I’m operating—but since this one is from a museum station, I thought I’d give them a plug……..Dan
The HF and 2-meter Amateur Radio station at Colorado’s Wings Over the Rockies Air & Space Museum is operational, and we just got approval to operate a special event station [...]

I’m not big on working satellites, but this is kind of cool…..Dan
ZCZC AS04
QST de W1AW
Space Bulletin 004 ARLS004
>From ARRL Headquarters
Newington, CT April 28, 2008
To all radio amateurs
SB SPACE ARL ARLS004
ARLS004 Ten New Satellites in Orbit
Ten satellites reached orbit April 28 aboard an Indian PSLV-C9
rocket launched from the Satish Dhawan Space Center. The primary
payloads were India’s [...]

Well, here’s my first attempt at video. These are clips from our operations today at the Ann Arbor Hands-On Museum.
Just to warn you, this is not the best video. Being my first, the clips jump kind of abruptly from one to another. The video quality isn’t very good, either. I produced this with iMovie on [...]