A new Network Affiliated RAYNET Group is being formed in the mid-Pennine region of Lancashire

Over this past week four new sunspot groups appeared. Group 1101 was already in place since August 24, and 1102 emerged on August 29

A come and try ARDF event will be held at Sherrardspark Wood near Welwyn Garden City on Sunday 12 September

Robert Macedo, KD1CY, ARES SKYWARN Coordinator and Eastern Massachusetts ARES Section Emergency Coordinator, provided this report on the afternoon of Friday, September 3:

The following is a situation report from the Eastern Massachusetts ARRL Section on Hurricane Earl. The good news is that Earl has weakened to a Category-1 hurricane. The other good news is that its track remains on target with ...

 The Air Force Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS) organization has a new “interim” Chief. Outgoing USAF MARS Chief Allen Eiermann, K3LSR, retired at the end of May and was replaced by TSgt Jason E. Sandifer. Sandifer is a systems manager stationed at the Air Force Network Integration Center (AFNIC) at Scott AFB, Illinois. AFNIC is the headquarters of the national Air Force MARS organization...

Over this past week, four new sunspot groups appeared. Group 1101 was already in place since August 24, and 1102 emerged on August 29. On September 1, two new sunspot groups -- 1103 and 1104 -- appeared, and on September 2, sunspot group 1105 arrived. Through August 26-September 2, the daily sunspot numbers were 23, 11, 11, 25, 28, 27, 51 and 52 and these same eight days saw the relative total ...

By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
Contributing Editor

This week, Surfin’ makes plans for emergency communications of the hurricane variety.  

As I write this, Connecticut and the Northeast are looking down the barrel of Hurricane Earl. It looks like my neck of the woods will only receive a glancing, but powerful blow, but points south and east of us will not be so lucky.

Having lived through direct hits fro...

The five islands of the Netherlands Antilles in the Caribbean Sea are to undergo constitutional status changes next month and result in a four new DXCC entities

In 1949 the 5 metre band (56 MHz) was taken away from UK Radio Amateurs and allocated to TV broadcasting

The Wednesday, September 1, edition of the BBC2 TV show Coast is now on the web and features an attempt to recreate the original war-winning experiment which proved that radar would work

The forthcoming Spratly Islands DXpedition is looking for some extra operators

ICPO - Islands, Castles and Portable Operations. Probably the most comprehesive ham radio activity listings available anywhere on the internet

The Beaver County Times reports Bob Pointer N9XAW flashed 'bye' - dash, dot, dot, dot; dash, dot, dash, dash; dot - in Morse code with a signal light from the third deck of LST 325 as it left a crowd lining the Ohio River at the New Cumberland Locks and Dam Tuesday evening

The American Radio Relay League's round-up of the forthcoming week's DX activity

The DX fraternity is eagerly looking forward to the day that Heard Island VK0-H, in the top ten of the world?s most wanted DX entities, is activated again

The amateur radio special event station GB2STI will be operating once again this year on the 25th/26th September from the Railway Preservation Society of Ireland's base in Whitehead, Co Antrim, as part of the Natonal Railways on the Air

Hurricane Earl -- once again a Category 4 storm -- is currently aiming for North Carolina’s Outer Banks. At 11 AM (EDT), Earl is located about 300 miles south of Cape Hatteras and 765 mles south of Nantucket Island, just off the coast of Massachusetts. Earl is now moving north at a speed near 18 MPH, and is expected to turn north-northeast with an increase in forward speed on Friday. The center...

The ARRL Lab has installed a D-STAR (Digital Smart Technologies for Amateur Radio) repeater in the Lab at the ARRL Headquarters building. Operating with an output of 147.390 MHz, positive offset, the W1HQ D-STAR repeater is a local repeater with a modest footprint covering the Hartford-New Britain, Connecticut area. The antenna is on the roof of the Headquarters building with the repeater locat...

CQ magazine has launched a new, easy-to-navigate website, and is celebrating with a special web-only discount offer

AmateurRadio.com is offering a free prize drawing. With the help of our generous sponsor, Wouxun.us, we’re holding a drawing for a Wouxun KG-UVD2 Dual-Band HT (US$107 value)