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 ...

Sept. 2010 letter from Supervisor Snider
TriValley Central
The mission of the Pinal County Radio Amateur Civil Emergency Service (RACES) communications group is “to operate, and maintain reliable, ...

Community Meetings 9-4
Walton Sun
This club welcomes new and old Ham Radio operators. There are no business meetings on these Tuesdays. We have classes and a great time together. ...

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)

UK-based Radio Caroline says its radio ship Ross Revenge is to have a new antenna system installed

Members of the Royal Jordanian Radio Amateurs Society (RJRAS) will activate special event station JY7P between September 17–19th

The Danish government says that it backs the filing of terrorism-related charges against two Denmark-based companies behind a Kurdish television station that prosecutors accuse of promoting the PKK militant group