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09/16/2008 | Hams Assist as Recovery Process Begins for Ike
Hams in Harris County -- the Texas county where Houston is located -- and the surrounding area are responding to calls to assist served agencies with Points of Distribution (POD) starting today around the Greater Houston area. These PODs, scheduled to run
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09/15/2008 | Hams in Texas and Surrounding States Active as Ike Pounds Gulf Coast and Inland Areas
As Hurricane Ike weakened and became a tropical storm and then a tropical depression after slamming ashore near Galveston, Texas early Saturday morning, hams in several ARRL sections were supporting agencies with their communications needs. Although the f
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09/15/2008 | Amateur Radio Quiz: As the Dial TurnsAmateur Radio is a home for innovators and experimenters, continually changing and inventing new ways to communicate. Others like to push their equipment and personal skills to the very limits of what is possible -- and still more hams just like to try so
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09/15/2008 | Texas Hams Braced for Ike
As Tropical Storm Ike slowly weakens over Southeast Texas, hams in the three ARRL Texas Sections -- South Texas, North Texas and West Texas -- are assisting served agencies that are coping with the after-effects of was once a Category 2 hurricane. At 2:1
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09/13/2008 | W1AW Supports EchoLink Operations During Ike
Throughout the course of Hurricane -- now Tropical Storm -- Ike, operators at W1AW, the Hiram Percy Maxim Station, hooked into the HF radio of ARRL West Gulf Vice Director David Woolweaver, K5RAV, via EchoLink. According to W1AW Station Manager Joe Carcia
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09/12/2008 | Hurricane Ike Eyeing Galveston Island
Hurricane Ike -- currently a Category 2 hurricane, but expected to reach Category 3 status sometime today -- is poised to make landfall near Galveston Island around 3 AM early Saturday, if it keeps on its current track and speed. Hams in Texas and Louisia
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09/12/2008 | The K7RA Solar Update
A new sunspot -- number 1001 -- emerged on Thursday, September 11. It is actually a single group with two small magnetic disturbances; we hope it is not another like the last sunspot, a weak one that barely emerged on August 21-22. That spot was so small
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09/12/2008 | Surfin': Old and New, But Nothing BlueLike a bride, this week's Surfin' features some new things and some old things, but no borrowed blue things.
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