POTA spotting via low earth orbit
Using the APSPOT service with SMS via iOS satellite connection.
QRPer

The case of the shrinking Technicians
Many Technicians are only dabbling in Ham Radio.
K0NR

HAARP to conduct research campaign January 27-31
Campaign includes VLF generation and ducting, studies on STEVE airglow, and space debris detection.
Amateur Radio Daily

First two-way contact via geostationary satellite bounce
The satellite in question, Inmarsat GX-5, is stationed at an altitude of over 35,000 kilometers.
Dwingeloo Radio Telescope

Secret listeners – revealing the life of Amateur Radio heroes
The Voluntary Interceptors, amateur radio enthusiasts, helped break Axis codes in WW2, secretly listening for crucial intelligence from home.
East Anglia Bylines

RepeaterSTART
The only repeater app to have step by step instructions, an updated offline repeater database, topo map, and other features that Hams will find helpful. An Open Source desktop version is free and comes with all features except for the step by step instructions.
RepeaterSTART

How to get ARRL members back
Term limits, direct membership election of presidents, online streaming of board meetings.
K4FMH

CaribouLite SDR HAT for SDR on a Raspberry Pi
Frequency range (30 MHz up to 6 GHz) combined with TX capabilities make it enticing.
Jeff Geerling

HamSCI expands Personal Space Weather Station activities
New Zoom sessions will cover the operational aspects (scoping the network, project timelines, data collection topics, network monitoring, maintenance) of the PSWS network.
QRZ

Predicting earthquakes hours in advance by radio
The ionosphere becomes more inhomogeneous above the epicenter in the 12 to 16 hours before the earthquake.
Experimental Radio News

52 week Ham Radio Challenge roundup: Weeks 1-4
52 challenges for 2025, approximately one a week.
Ian Renton

How should I attach a Ham Radio antenna to my vehicle?
The good news is that there are multiple options.
OnAllBands

Video

24 GHz QSO
Two members of the Surrey Amateur Radio Communications Society completed what is believed to be the first 24 GHz terrestrial contact in BC.
SARC

Ham Radio operators serving during California firestorms
Hams are standing watch and reporting conditions.
ARRL

LA Fires – scanner action
Key frequencies for scanner monitoring during Santa Ana wind events.
VE3IPS

What’s new at Digital Library of Amateur Radio & Communications
Amateur television, public domain radio books, club newsletters, and more.
Zero Retries

Is measured Ham activity related to national association membership?
Defining “active” Amateur Radio operators.
K4FMH

ICQ Podcast
Episode 447 discusses the latest Amateur Radio news.
ICQ Podcast

Please listen for my 10 meter beacon
The frequency is 28.2335 MHz. The callsign is HI7/N2CQR. I am in the Dominican Republic.
SolderSmoke Daily News

Bridging two worlds: Shortwave listening meets Amateur Radio
Many of us who are also Amateur Radio operators, got their start in the hobby through simply listening to shortwave radio.
SWLing Post

Snow, sand, and solar storms: Tim’s New Year’s Eve radio adventure
New Year’s Eve sand dune SOTA & POTA.
QRPer

Weekend with the MTR3B “Currahee”
The much anticipated, new Mountaintopper MTR3B-v4 arrived in my mailbox this past Friday.
W6CSN

Video

Testing EmComm Tools CE – Radio Communication for SHTF
This video is a field review of TTP EmComm Tools CE.
ModernHam

Ammo can case for the Xiegu G90
Creating an ammo can case for the Xiegu G90 using some scraps I had laying around the house.
WY6Y

FCC upholds record $34,000 forfeiture against Amateur licensee
Ham interfered with operation of fire suppression aircraft.
ARRL

Morse Walker
A free, web-based CW pileup trainer with modes such as POTA, SST, and CWT, plus beginner-friendly features, including adjustable speeds and Farnsworth spacing.
Morse Walker

Time Mapper UHD
A visually stunning program that combines mapping and time functions to produce an ever-changing 4K or HD World Clock display.
EI8IC

The decline in ARRL membership and market share, 2001-2023
With the publication of the 2023 Annual Report by the ARRL, we now have two more years of membership and Amateur license data.
K4FMH

SSTV test cards
Test cards created for the purpose of providing good-quality reference images for SSTV development at the resolutions used by SSTV modes.
VK4MSL

A different kind of Foxhunt
My vision was to have a Foxhunt available whenever you want.
VE7SAR

ChatGPT prototyping of Ham Radio mapping applications
It took ChatGPT and I about 20 minutes to come up with a prototype map of POTA QSOs.
Copasetic Flow

Is an EFHW antenna truly multiband?
Resonant on every band, earn DXCC in a single day.
Ham Radio Outside the Box

The magic that only comes from a radio you built yourself
The many benefits of true homebrew.
SolderSmoke Daily News

Pi Pico makes SSTV reception A snap
This Pi Pico SSTV decoder makes it cheap and easy to get into slow-scan television.
Hackaday

Video

D4C unveiled
Inside the world’s most dominant Ham Radio superstation
W1DED

Is Ham Radio addictive?
Two 60-year hams discuss their own obsessions and share stories about Amateur Radio operators who have really gotten obsessive about the hobby.
Ham Radio Perspectives

SCAMP digital mode available in Fldigi
A weak signal digital mode developed by Dr. Daniel Marks (KW4TI).
Amateur Radio Daily

Micropower AM broadcasting
The world of Part 15 broadcasting on the AM broadcast band.
AA7EE

Successful tests with Rattlegram
Rattlegram is an app for a smartphone and it allows users to send short text messages over the radio.
EI7GL

The SARC Communicator – January-February 2025
Now read in over 165 countries, we bring you 120+ pages of Amateur Radio content from the Southwest corner of Canada.
Surrey Amateur Radio Communications

The Holy Cluster
Ham Radio station spotting tool.
IARC

Taking down the power grid over radio
There’s a plan to transition to a better system that uses authenticated transmissions.
Hackaday

Documenting a 1,115 foot radio tower climb
The perfect set of conditions for a drone flight to capture the risk of tower climbing.
Jeff Geerling

A historic day for Amateur Radio in Bangladesh
POTA Activation at Himchari National Park.
QRZ

Is VarAC legal?
This all seems to go against the open philosophy of Amateur Radio.
marxy’s musing on technology

Difference between inverted-L and inverted-V on DX
The inverted-L was clearly the winner this time.
PE4BAS

Video

How to use AI in your Ham Shack
How AI tools like ChatGPT or Claude.ai can revolutionize your Amateur Radio experience.
Broken Signal

3D printed satellite antenna
A 3D-printable “Helicone” antenna for L-Band (NOAA, Meteor, and other weather satellites).
saveitforparts

Locating HF noise source without using special equipment
A very simple and relatively quick way of finding offending RF noise sources on the house.
Kevin Loughin

10. A super-simple standalone WSPR beacon
Being able to build your own radios is the best thing about being an Amateur Radio operator.
Hackaday

9. Ham Map
A map for WWFF, POTA, and SOTA locations and activity.
OK1SIM

8. Build the Frankentenna
The ultimate portable Ham Radio vertical antenna.
KB9VBR

7. Auroras in Florida, Puerto Rico, Mexico
A CME hit Earth’s magnetic field on May 10th, sparking the biggest geomagnetic storm in more than 20 years–an extreme category G5 event.
SpaceWeather.com

6. Yaesu, Icom & Kenwood feature new transceivers at Ham Fair Japan
Yaesu revealed the FTX-1F, Icom announced the IC-7760, and Kenwood revealed a yet to be named mobile rig.
Amateur Radio Daily

5. MFJ ends reign as king of Ham Radio parts
“It was rough trying to say goodbye.”
Mississippi Clarion Ledger

4. The most hackable handheld Ham Radio yet
Quansheng’s UV-K5 can be modded at the click of a mouse.
IEEE Spectrum

3. GoodWatch: A Ham Radio wristwatch
Receives 2FSK 1200baud, acts as a frequency counter, and features CW modulation.
KK4VCZ

2. Amateur Radio Booklet 2024 [PDF]
A comprehensive, Open Source Amateur Radio operating manual.
F4JJD

1. First M17 based radios begin shipping
Connect Systems has begun shipping the first radios that operate M17 “out of the box.”
Amateur Radio Daily

SAQ to air on Christmas Eve Morning, Dec 24th 2024
On the air to send out the traditional Christmas message to the whole world using the 200kW Alexanderson alternator from 1924 on 17.2 kHz CW.
The Alexander association

Holiday SSTV experiment from the International Space Station
Event runs December 25th through January 5th.
Amateur Radio Daily

Send a Radiogram via the web
ARRL asks Hams to utilize the NTS Radiogram system.
ARRL

What’s New at DLARC — December 2024
In 2024 DLARC has scanned 1.1 million pages of radio manuals, journals and magazines, newsletters, books, and catalogs. All of it is online and full-text searchable.
K6KJN

It takes all kinds to have a successful Amateur Radio club
One of the keys to our success is offering a wide variety of activities.
KB6NU

In praise of radio geekdom
Ham Radio saved my life.
The Signal

Virgo meteor sky view
Virgo is designed to serve for meteorscatter propagation purposes in Amateur Radio.
DB1BM, DL8AAU

CQ Magazine legacy
Despite the loss of an excellent publication, volunteers maintain the most popular awards and contests.
KE9V

Saltwater activation
Always wanted to try this.
QRPer

My QMX+ adventure
Building a QRP Labs QMX+ transceiver.
KC8JC

CLEFHW antenna: Ready for action
Coil Loaded End-Fed Half-Wave antenna for backpack portable operation.
Ham Radio Outside the Box

A Ham’s Night Before Christmas
KN4AQ’s classic Christmas poem.
HamRadioNow

Video

KI1P POTA activation
Live remote broadcast truck converted into a mobile POTA station.
LostNationRadio

Easy Ham Radio networking
Let’s use an Amateur Radio and a Raspberry Pi to create an AX.25 radio network node, then send email over-the-horizon to a Winlink gateway.
KM6LYW

1943: Crystals go to war
A story in pictures of the preparation and manufacture of quartz crystals for radio communication.
DLARC

Establishing a Community GMRS Repeater
Simple inverted-Y antenna is designed to withstand heavy wind.
K8EBR

Dwingeloo telescope receives signals from Voyager 1
Only a few telescopes in the world have received these signals.
Dwingeloo Telescope

Harbor Breeze Meshtastic hack
Use the $15 Harbor Breeze Solar Light as a self contained waterproof enclosure for a Meshtastic Node.
hackaday.io

Morse code: Ready to transmit
At the world Morse Code championships in Tunisia, competitors must battle to be the fastest and most accurate at sending and receiving Morse code.
BBC

SOTA 2024 winter bonus event on Mount Sunapee
A Study In Peer Pressure And A Bothy Bag Gear Test.
KM1NDY

POTA: Reflecting on 2024 goals
Life doesn’t exactly go according to plan, and it certainly didn’t for me in 2024.
QRPer

Virtual CW band
A fun way to practice sending and receiving CW without worrying about a radio, an antenna, a license, good propagation, or RF noise.
Ham Radio Solutions

Ever wondered if that Ham is also on GMRS?
The Ham Radio & GMRS licence holder lookup.
GMRS.app

Traquito WSPR pico balloon resources
Jetpack is a custom Traquito-designed pico balloon WSPR tracker aimed at beginners and experienced alike.
Traquito WSPR Pico Balloon

The Geminids on FM: A celestial symphony you can hear
With a full moon dimming December’s visual show, radio offers a unique way to tune in.
Radio World

Vertical antenna almost as tall as the Empire State Building
The vertical antenna was made of about 1 million pounds of stainless steel and was 1,226 feet high.
W0RW

Video

Young leader, bright future
McKenzie KO4GLN on Ham Radio and beyond.
W1DED

AMSAT OSCAR 7: The little satellite that could
Take a trip with me as we tell the tale of the “Miracle” satellite, OSCAR 7.
Retro Rockets