2025 Bill Orr, W6SAI, Technical Writing Winners Awarded

2025 Bill Orr, W6SAI, Technical Writing Winners Awarded

ℹ️ INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT: I diritti di questa notizia appartengono al legittimo proprietario.Fonte: Sito Web Esterno – Leggi l’articolo originale completo The ARRL Foundation’s 2025 Bill Orr, W6SAI, Technical Writing Award has been awarded to Dr. Ethan Miller, K8GU, and Dr. Nathaniel A. Frissell, W2NAF, for their August 2025 QST article, “About Traveling Ionospheric Disturbances.”The editors of QST nominated Miller and Frissell in August 2025, the ARRL Foundation Board approved the awards in January 2026, and the award plaques were distributed to……

NCVEC Question Pool Committee Issues Revision to 2026 – 2030 Technician Pool

NCVEC Question Pool Committee Issues Revision to 2026 – 2030 Technician Pool

ℹ️ INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT: I diritti di questa notizia appartengono al legittimo proprietario.Fonte: Sito Web Esterno – Leggi l’articolo originale completo This announcement was originally published in the ARRL Letter on February 19, 2026. ARRL members can subscribe to the weekly ARRL Letter at www.arrl.org/opt-in-out.—The National Conference of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC) Question Pool Committee (QPC) released a February 19, 2026, revision to the new 2026 – 2030 Technician Class question pool. Questions drawn from that pool are vali……

New Technician Class Question Pool Released — Effective July 1, 2026

New Technician Class Question Pool Released — Effective July 1, 2026

ℹ️ INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT: I diritti di questa notizia appartengono al legittimo proprietario.Fonte: Sito Web Esterno – Leggi l’articolo originale completo This announcement was originally published in the ARRL Letter on December 18, 2025. ARRL members can subscribe to the weekly ARRL Letter at www.arrl.org/opt-in-out.—On December 18, 2025, the National Conference of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC) Question Pool Committee (QPC) released the revised 2026-2030 Technician Class (Element 2) question pool. It will be required for all Amateur ……

Amateur Radio to Participate in DoD Armed Forces Day Crossband Test on May 9, 2026

Amateur Radio to Participate in DoD Armed Forces Day Crossband Test on May 9, 2026

ℹ️ INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT: I diritti di questa notizia appartengono al legittimo proprietario.Fonte: Sito Web Esterno – Leggi l’articolo originale completo Amateur radio operators will participate in the Department of Defense’s Armed Forces Day (AFD) Crossband Test on May 9, 2026. The annual event will not impact any public or private communications.For more than 50 years, military and amateur stations have participated in this interoperability exercise between the amateur and government radio services. The AFD Crossband Test provides a unique opp……

Helping NASA Track Artemis II’s Orion Spacecraft

Helping NASA Track Artemis II’s Orion Spacecraft

ℹ️ INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT: I diritti di questa notizia appartengono al legittimo proprietario.Fonte: Sito Web Esterno – Leggi l’articolo originale completo The University of Pittsburgh’s Panther Amateur Radio Club (PARC) had a unique opportunity last week…helping NASA track Artemis II’s Orion spacecraft on its mission to the moon and back!Faculty advisor Juan Manfredi, NAØB, said the club responded to a request from NASA to submit a proposal. “We submitted our proposal in September 2025 and were notified in November that our proposal was…

Elecraft Donates Amateur Radio Station to W1AW

Elecraft Donates Amateur Radio Station to W1AW

ℹ️ INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT: I diritti di questa notizia appartengono al legittimo proprietario.Fonte: Sito Web Esterno – Leggi l’articolo originale completo ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® has welcomed a new high-performance Elecraft station to Studio 3 at W1AW, the Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Station, at its headquarters in Newington, Connecticut.Founded in 1998 and headquartered in Watsonville, California, Elecraft produces high-performance amateur radio equipment available both factory-assembled and as kits. Its product line span……

The ARRL Solar Update

The ARRL Solar Update

ℹ️ INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT: I diritti di questa notizia appartengono al legittimo proprietario.Fonte: Sito Web Esterno – Leggi l’articolo originale completo ℹ️ INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT: I diritti di questa notizia appartengono al legittimo proprietario.Fonte: Sito Web Esterno – Leggi l’articolo originale completoSolar activity has been at low levels with only C-class flaresproduced by Regions 4401, 4405, and 4409. There were 9 numberedactive regions on the solar disk, with 4409 showing the mostsignificant growth during the period and producing the largest flareson April…

ARRL Dakota Division has a New Vice Director

ARRL Dakota Division has a New Vice Director

ℹ️ INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT: I diritti di questa notizia appartengono al legittimo proprietario.Fonte: Sito Web Esterno – Leggi l’articolo originale completo ℹ️ INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT: I diritti di questa notizia appartengono al legittimo proprietario.Fonte: Sito Web Esterno – Leggi l’articolo originale completoChris Stallkamp, KIØD, of Selby, South Dakota, has been appointed Vice Director of the ARRL Dakota Division. ARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR, appointed Stallkamp who has been South Dakota Section Manager since 2012. Stallkamp, an ARRL Life Member, has been a radio…

ARISS Outlines Opportunities for Space Station Contacts in 2027

ARISS Outlines Opportunities for Space Station Contacts in 2027

ℹ️ INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT: I diritti di questa notizia appartengono al legittimo proprietario.Fonte: Sito Web Esterno – Leggi l’articolo originale completo ℹ️ INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT: I diritti di questa notizia appartengono al legittimo proprietario.Fonte: Sito Web Esterno – Leggi l’articolo originale completoThe Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program is seeking formal and informal educational institutions and organizations, individually or working together, to host an amateur radio contact with a crew member on board the ISS.  Crew members will participate in…

FCC Warns Licensee on Out-of-Band Transmissions

FCC Warns Licensee on Out-of-Band Transmissions

ℹ️ INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT: I diritti di questa notizia appartengono al legittimo proprietario.Fonte: Sito Web Esterno – Leggi l’articolo originale completo ℹ️ INFORMATIVA COPYRIGHT: I diritti di questa notizia appartengono al legittimo proprietario.Fonte: Sito Web Esterno – Leggi l’articolo originale completoThe Federal Communications Commission (FCC) has responded to a complaint involving a Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, amateur for operating outside the privileges of his Technician Class license and causing interference to local emergency service communications by transmitting on a public service frequency, 470.4375…