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03/28/2008 | The K7RA Solar Update
It is exciting to see heightened solar activity one week into spring. Currently, three sunspots are visible: 987, 988 and 989. The consensus says that all seem to be old Solar Cycle 23 spots. But with the three sunspot groups so close to the Sun's equator
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03/28/2008 | Surfin': Having a Ham Radio CowAs spring breaks out across the land, ham radio operators become anxious to move their radio shacks on wheels.
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03/26/2008 | ARRL EXPO Getting in Gear for 2008 Dayton Hamvention®
ARRL EXPO Coordinator Katie Breen, W1KRB, relays that plans for the ARRL EXPO at this year's Dayton Hamvention® are coming together nicely: "Our current focus is on the new look and feel of our space. In past Hamventions, Forum Room 5 was located
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03/26/2008 | FCC Fines Colorado Company for Selling "Non-Certified Citizens Band (CB) Transceivers"
On Friday, March 21, the FCC released a Forfeiture Order in the amount of $7000 to CB Shop and More in Loveland, Colorado for "willful and repeated violations of Section 302(b) of the Communications Act of 1934, as amended (Act<
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03/25/2008 | EmComm Can Be FashionableA professional look for an amateur EmComm installation.
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03/24/2008 | Merle Glunt, W3OKN (SK)
Merle Glunt, W3OKN, of Mount Union, Pennsylvania, passed away March 16. He was 90. Glunt served as the ARRL consultant to the World Administrative Radio Conference in 1979 (WARC-79), and through years of hard work, was instrumental in gaining the 12, 17 a
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03/20/2008 | Surfin’: Looping Into the 21st CenturyI get thrown for a loop again, but this week, it’s a current loop rather than a vintage one.
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03/20/2008 | The K7RA Solar Update
ARRL Headquarters is closed for Good Friday on March 21, so this bulletin is coming out a day early, and on the vernal equinox. We had a few more days with visible sunspots over the past week. Sunspot numbers on March 15-17 were 12, 12 and 11. Over the pa
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