ARRL responds to FCC proposals
ARRL concluded that the FCC should also remove the bandwidth limits that apply uniquely to the data modes on the subject bands.
ARRL

In praise of old meters
There were two obviously burned resistors and a leaking battery—an easy repair to put this meter back into service.
Hackaday

SDU-X: Software defined data transmission with ultrasonic transducers
SDU-X uses two ultrasonic transducers mounted on 3D printed parabolic dishes.
RTL-SDR

open890
open890 is a web-based UI for the Kenwood TS-890S Amateur Radio, and features good usability, clean design, and high-speed bandscope/audio scope displays, among other features not available either on the radio itself, or in the ARCP remote control software.
N0RUA

144 MHz EME Newsletter
Since 2003 I’ve produced the monthly 144 MHz EME Newsletter focusing on 2m EME activity. The newsletter comes free of charge and is my personal courtesy to the Ham community.
DF2ZC

What’s new at DLARC January 2024
On January 1, 2024, content published in 1928 in the United States entered the public domain. But what about the Amateur Radio content?
Zero Retries

Investigating creeping ground fault
I decided to make a device that could monitor the residual current of my mains installation over time to see if the if it would uncover anything.
Dzl’s Evil Genius Lair

Top 5 Parks on the Air tips for activating a park
The top 5 tips to help you make the most of your park activations and ensure a successful and enjoyable experience.
N1JUR

Video

External meter display and tune button for Yaesu FT-991a
Build a Yaesu external meter display and tune button yourself with an Arduino NANO.
PA0LUX

Build a Ham transmitter with a Raspberry Pi Pico
Using only a few external components build a Ham Radio transmitter covering 0.5-30 MHz.
101 Things

Handheld spectrum analyzer review
The Jstvro spectrum analyzer covers 240-960 MHz on the first port and 15 – 2700 MHz on the second port.
Tech Minds

Meet the students using radio waves to contact the ISS
A high school club in Pennsylvania is making waves — radio waves, that is.
TODAY

The ARRL Board is at it again
A newly proposed Code of Conduct, which I believe is the equivalent of a loyalty, confidentiality and obedience pledge to the League itself and not to the members that elect us.
KB6NU

Going on a social media diet
Leaving Twitter, investing in Mastodon.
QRPer

MeshCom 4.0
A project to exchange text messages via LORA radio modules. MeshCom modules can be combined to form a mesh network, but can also be connected to a message network via MeshCom gateways, which are ideally connected via HAMNET.
ICSSW

2023: The Year in Radio
Ham Radio in 2023 was a continual source of rejuvenation and energy.
KC8JC

Introducing QSOMate
A Ham Radio logging application for iPhone, iPad, and macOS Desktop.
MacHamRadio.com

Mini-whips: Junk, right?
The results were very surprising.
Real-World Amateur Radio

Everything you wanted to know about Zulu Time
Zulu Time is the military name for Universal Coordinated Time (UTC).
OnAllBands

AM or SSB are there ‘windows?’
A new voice mode appeared in 1947 when Wes Schum, W9DYV, introduced the first Amateur Radio SSB transmitter.
K9EID via AmateurRadio.com

Somaiya students’ Amateur Radio Satellite takes to the skies
Equipped with a voice repeater and digipeater, the satellite extends its services to the global Amateur Radio community.
HindustanTimes

Video

Demo of 3 Ham study sites
Demo of 3 Amateur Radio study sites in under 3 minutes.
Branvini Films

Salmon Run 2023
WA State QSO Contest from Samish Overlook.
WA7JNJ

Working the ISS Ham Radio Repeater with a Baofeng
My first attempt working the International Space Station Ham Radio Repeater.
W6IWN

The best Ham Radio videos of 2023
Top 10 list.
KB9VBR

Another year of Ham Radio is in the books! Before turning our sights toward 2024, let’s take one last look back at 2023 through the lens of everyone’s favorite metric: Email engagement. The following are the top ten most clicked links measured across every issue of Amateur Radio Weekly in 2023. Happy New Year!

73 K4HCK

P.S. Take a look at the top links from years past: 2022, 2018, 2017, 2016, and 2015

Top links of 2023

10. Practical Antennas
Based on 50+ years of building and experimenting.
WB6BYU

9. Ham Radio tunes in to a new generation
Ham Radio appears to be making a comeback.
The Times

8. A strange but proven antenna
The VP2E has earned a place of honor in my antenna box.
Ham Radio Outside the Box

7. $30 Lowes antenna
You can still put together a decent all-band antenna on a budget.
KB6NU

6. Revision of the RST standard for signal reporting
Technology has developed a situation where the time has come for a revision.
Amateur Radio Daily

5. RFNM: A next generation SDR with 10 MHz to 7200 MHz tuning range
Up to 612 MHz of real time bandwidth for receiving and two DACs with up to 153 MHz of TX bandwidth.
RTL-SDR

4. A 200ft wire antenna up zero feet
How does it perform?
Ham Radio Outside the Box

3. It’s finally dead!
Yaesu FT-818 discontinued.
OH8STN

2. Amateur Radio License Map
Use this map to find Amateur Radio license holders in the USA.
KT1F

1. HamClock
A kiosk-style application that provides real-time space weather, radio propagation models, operating events, and other information particularly useful to the Radio Amateur.
WBØOEW

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