NASA streams first video from deep space via laser
The video, featuring a cat named Taters, was sent back from nearly 19 million miles away.
NASA

QRP Cluster
A QRP self spotting cluster.
QRP Cluster

Visualizing FT8
FT8 operators coming and going over a 24 hour period, animated on a map.
K9OX

The lifeline of CW and POTA
The Ham community saw me through my difficulties.
QRPer

The 2023 Winter Olivia QSO Party
The first-ever Winter Olivia Digital Mode QSO Party is about to commence.
The Olivia Digital DXers Club

NanoVNA setup for common antenna system measurement tasks
A common task is an overall assessment of an antenna system.
owenduffy.net

A WSPR monitor running on an old Android TV Box with OpenWebRX
These TV Boxes have an AMlogic S805 chip with excellent performance.
RTL-SDR

IC-9700 Hamlib setup for FT-8 via QO-100
There were some interesting commands that are obviously not in use within hamlib/rigctl.
Notizbl0g

Meteor scatter experiment with the 2023 Geminid shower
Using an Amateur Radio beacon 500kms away to find the peak of the 2023 Geminids meteor shower.
EI7GL

Video

Intro to the Olivia digital mode for HF
An introduction presented to the Raleigh Amateur Radio Society by NW7US.
NW7US

Why the ARRL matters
Bob Inderbitzen, NQ1R, serves as the Director of Marketing and Innovation at the ARRL.
W1DED

HamClock on Windows
This method works on Windows 10 and 11.
KF0IDT

ISS SSTV this weekend
Event celebrates 40th Anniversary of Ham Radio in Human Spaceflight.
AMSAT UK

12 Days of Christmas on-air special event
12 stations plus 2 bonus stations will make up the event.
Amateur Radio Daily

CATS Communication And Tracking System
CATS is a packet radio standard primarily designed for autonomous position reports.
CATS

AO-73 back in transponder mode
After a year long period of battery management, the transponder on AO-73 has been restarted.
AMSAT UK

GEO satellite proposal could include large portion of North America (PDF)
Plus an experimental laser based high-speed data link.
AMSAT

Host A YSF DMR DSTAR C4FM Multi-mode reflector on Ubuntu
XLX is a multi-mode/multi-protocol gateway reflector for Amateur Radio digital modes.
The Modern Ham

UniQSL-2: QSL cards made easy
Create an easily printable PDF file, three QSLs per page.
UniQSL-2

Determining signal bearing from switching antennas in software
Time difference of arrival system for determining the bearing to a transmitter.
KA7OEI

Two new DX-peditions planned for Bouvet Island
Just days later, a rival expedition announced that they were planning a separate expedition.
EI7GL

Video

TAPR Digital Communications Conference
Video recording of the 2023 TAPR Digital Communications Conference.
TAPR

DX from a Christmas Tree
Christmas light dipole.
Modern Ham

NASA receives laser-beamed message from 10 million miles away
The laser can send data at 10 to 100 times the speed of traditional radio wave systems.
CNN

ARDC and ARRL announce $2.1 million for the next generation of Amateur Radio
Includes funding to support scholarships for Radio Amateurs, radio technology for classroom teachers, and Amateur Radio club grants.
ARRL

WSPR beacon for Raspberry Pi Pico
The WSPR beacon provides the output signal on the GPIO pin of Raspberry Pi.
RPiks

Host a website from your Xiegu X6100
Hosting a website to serve manuals and other useful applications.
The Modern Ham

Chatt Radio Ham Radio store
Chatt Radio offers both an online and brick and mortar storefront.
Chatt Radio

sBitx V2 Amateur transceiver mods for POTA use
A touchscreen radio with a huge screen and powered by a Raspberry Pi.
WK4DS

One year on
So what have I done in this time?
GM5ALX

Edmonds Woodway Amateur Radio Club celebrates five years of connecting
With just a piece of wire for an antenna, you can be in contact with people all over the world.
My Edmonds News

The art of DX pileup busting
Listen, Listen, Listen
AmateurRadio.com

Happy 10th Birthday FUNcube-1 (AO-73)
Many stations around the world continue to upload the telemetry.
ICQ Podcast

Video

ARISS 40th Anniversary Webinar with Richard Garriott
Discussing the first contact via Amateur Radio in Human Spaceflight.
ARISS

Ham Radio contest secrets from N6MJ and KL9A
Dan Craig N6MJ and Chris Hurlbutt KL9A are phenoms in the Ham Radio contesting world.
W1DED

Ordering A Pizza With A Baofeng
Out of cell range and wanting a Pizza.
WaveTalkers

European Space Agency GEO satellite opportunity
Footprint could cover portions of Canada and USA.
AMSAT-DL

AllScan: Web based AllStarLink management console
Provides favorites management features, AllStarLink stats integration, and connection monitoring and control functions.
AllScan

NASA highlights Ham Radio on ISS
NASA promotes the efforts of ARISS and STEM.
NASA

Promising news for the Amateur Radio 23cm microwave allocation
It looked as if the decades old allocation might be lost altogether.
EI7GL

HamSCI announces publication of latest peer-reviewed paper
Provides recommendations for Amateur Radio – professional science collaborations in the future.
HamSCI

Made in Vermont: W1SFR
His side hustle is key for the community.
WCAX

Fire damaged Nikola Tesla’s last remaining laboratory
Crowdfounders previously raised over $1 million to save.
Business Insider

Making math easy for Ham Radio experimenters
There is a tool that can level the playing field – it’s called the spreadsheet.
Ham Radio Outside the Box

Winlink on iPhone/iPad
RadioMail is a new client app for the iPhone and iPad.
OnAllBands

Canadian Basic Qualifications question bank
This test bank has 971 questions.
IndexFlip

Video

Can you do 160 Meters on two Wolf River Coils?
Let’s find out.
Ham Radio Tube

The Magic Carpet rides again! This time on 80 Meters
KZ9V shares with us how he modified his 40 through 10 meter end fed half wave antenna.
KB9VBR

Scientists uncover aurora-like radio emission above a sunspot
These sunspot aurora emissions occur at frequencies ranging from hundreds of thousands of kHz to roughly 1 million kHz.
New Jersey Institute of Technology

SKYWARN Recognition Day is ready to go
The 2023 SKYWARN Recognition Day is December 2 from 0000z to 2400z.
ARRL

Will AI help us have more fun with Amateur Radio?
Your personal agent could monitor your club’s 2-meter repeater and notify you when your friends are on the air.
KB6NU

Amateur Radio accounts for 17% of Icom’s business
Icom released a document titled Medium Term Business Plan 2026.
EI7GL

What’s up with NVIS?
I was amazed that I sent and received a 59 signal report from an antenna that was only about 6 feet off the ground.
KK4Z

Cubesats: How an accidental standard launched a new space age
NASA was initially reluctant to embrace the small form factor.
Aviation Weekly

Cheap & cheerful telescopic SPOTA antenna
This is a handy standby antenna, or for holiday activations, but bring your tuner along.
QRPer

NASA launches Spot the Station app
Notifications each time the station passes over your location.
Amateur Radio Daily

Video

K9DP Broadcast Interference Filter 2.0
Field tested with a Xiegu G90.
W6IWN

How to build a mini HF loading coil
No need for a tuner.
Mr. MuD’s Radio Time VA5MuD

The OMs on QRZ said this won’t work
You can’t make QSOs with a wire that low to the ground. Boy-howdy were they wrong.
N7KOM

FCC drops symbol rate for HF
Instead, the Commission establishes a 2.8 kHz bandwidth limitation in the applicable Amateur Radio bands.
Amateur Radio Daily

SOTAMĀT
Self-spotting SOTA and POTA over HF.
SOTAMĀT

DITs and DAHs from Alcatraz
I will activate with Morse code in the shadows of Sean Connery, Nicolas Cage and Ed Harris.
QRPer

A spectral look at the KH1’s sidetone
I don’t particularly care for the KH1’s sidetone for two reasons.
AE5X

Automating NOAA APT and Meteor M2 LRPT reception with SatDump
SatDump is a popular program used to receive and decode various forms of weather satellites.
RTL-SDR

How to improve Ham Radio station grounds
Station grounding has the most misconceptions.
OnAllBands

Antenna goes up for student-run Ham Radio station at University of Scranton
The new antenna was installed to help students learn more about radio waves.
WNEP

Fort Baker on the air
This location offers spectacular views of the Golden Gate Bridge and the city of San Francisco.
W6CSN

Video

Converting a CB to 10 meter AM
SolderSmoke

Trailer: My Radio My Life
The film revisits the golden era of radio in India, including Ham Radio operators.
Timecap Documentaries

Stealth HOA antenna system
The ultimate (resonant on 8 bands) stealth HOA antenna system.
HamJazz

Portable with the new FX-4CR transceiver
Results and experience out of the box and on the air with the FX-4CR.
Coastal Waves & Wires

First worked all states certificate awarded for the 33-cm band
W5LUA’s 38-year quest to contact all 50 states on the 33-centimeter band has ended.
ARRL

email.radio
Dedicated to providing free email hosting for all licensed Ham Radio operators globally.
email.radio

An upside down antenna?
A Zepp is basically a quarter-wave length of window line.
Ham Radio Outside the Box

Boondock Echo RF recorder
Records transmissions, stores recordings in the cloud.
Boondock Echo

Nucleo-64 development board
RF transceiver 150 MHz to 960 MHz frequency range.
STMicroelectronics

Add your Amateur Radio certification to your LinkedIn profile
Adding your Ham license requires only a few steps.
N3DEZ

POTA: Contest or operating event?
It comes down to whatever floats your boat.
W2LJ

Morning by the bay
An early shift activation at K-3429, then meet the train at 8:30 am.
W6CSN

Video

ARDOP protocol for Winlink
ARDOP is a free, Open Source alternative to PACTOR and VARA HF.
KM6LYW Radio

Sunset over Mount Saint Helens
2 meter contacts while flying over Mount Saint Helens.
W7NY