Nick, KD8IPE, one of the guys in my latest Tech class got interested in working 6m and asked me about 6m antenna. Well, having never worked 6m, I didn’t have a very good answer for him. Then, I thought about the J-pole antenna. I have built many 2m J-poles. They’re simple to build, and [...]

From the NARTE News, Winter 2007:
Cornell researchers have discovered that strong solar flares cause Global Positioning System (GPS) receivers to fail. Because solar flares are generally unpredictable, such failures could be devastating for “safety-of-life” GPS operations such as navigating passenger jets, stabilizing floating oil rigs and locating mobile phone distress calls.
“If you’re driving to the [...]

On the HamRadioHelpGroup mailling list, there is a thread about finding repeaters. Someone asked how to find repeaters in an area without carrying around an ARRL Repeater Guide. While I think that carrying around the ARRL Guide is probably the best solution, there were several other good ones, including:

Find the website of the repeater coordinating [...]