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05/27/2016 | ESA Announces Winners of “Fly Your Satellite!” CubeSat Competition
Radio amateurs in the US, Russia, Germany, and the Netherlands topped the field in a European Space Agency (ESA) Education Office competition to be the first to hear signals from three new, student-built CubeSats.
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05/27/2016 | The K7RA Solar Update
The decline in solar activity resumes
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05/26/2016 | FCC Denies Petition for Consideration in Vanity Call Sign Dispute
An Arizona radio amateur has been unsuccessful in convincing the FCC to take a 1 × 2 vanity call sign away from its present holder and grant it to him.
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05/26/2016 | The Yasme Foundation Announces Excellence Award Recipients
The Board of Directors of The Yasme Foundation has announced three Yasme Excellence Award recipients.
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05/26/2016 | ARRL “Strongly Supports” Petition to Drop 15 dB Restriction for Amateur Amplifiers
In comments filed on May 26, the ARRL said it “strongly supports” a petition to the FCC seeking to eliminate an Amateur Service rule that amateur amplifiers not be able to exhibit more than 15 dB gain.
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05/25/2016 | ARRL Headquarters Will Be Closed on Memorial Day, Monday, May 30
ARRL Headquarters will be closed on Memorial Day, Monday, May 30.
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05/25/2016 | Search Continues for STMSat-1 Radio Signal
Youngsters at St Thomas More Cathedral School in Virginia remain optimistic that their STMSat-1 CubeSat, deployed on May 16 from the International Space Station, will begin transmitting a signal.
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05/25/2016 | Amateur Radio to Play Major Role in June Pacific Northwest Earthquake Exercise
Cascadia Rising, the largest FEMA exercise of 2016, will get under way on June 7, and Oregon and Washington ARES/RACES organizations both will be heavily involved, with a significant investment of HF activity planned.
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