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09/14/2015 | ARES/RACES Volunteers Activate for California Wildfires
Information is incomplete on Amateur Radio’s response to the wildfire emergency in California, but ARES volunteers in Amador County supported communications at a Red Cross shelter that’s housing evacuees from the Butte wildfire in Northern California.
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09/14/2015 | Amateur Radio Special Event Stations to Mark Pope’s US Visit
When Pope Francis visits the US in late September, Amateur Radio special event stations will be on the air to mark the occasion.
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09/14/2015 | Antarctic VI0ANZAC Operation Faced Poor Weather and Propagation:
Despite adverse Antarctic winter weather, the VI0ANZAC special event made it on the air over the August 29-30 weekend.
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09/12/2015 | Three ISS Crew Members, Including Two Hams, Return Safely to Earth
Two radio amateurs — European Space Agency (ESA) astronaut Andreas Mogensen, KG5GCZ, Soyuz commander and Russian cosmonaut Gennady Padalka, RN3DT — plus Kazakh cosmonaut Aidyn Aimbetov, arrived back on Earth on September 12 from the International Space...
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09/11/2015 | Worcester Polytechnic Institute Wireless Association Welcomes New, High-Profile Tower
The new fall semester at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Massachusetts, heralded not only the resumption of classes but a new antenna tower for the WPI Wireless Association (WPIWA), the home of W1YK.
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09/11/2015 | K1JT Advises WSJT-X Users Not to Use “Unauthorized” Builds of His Software
Nobel Laureate Joe Taylor, K1JT, the developer of the popular WSJT “weak-signal communication” software suite is advising users to avoid what he called “unauthorized” versions of his software.
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09/11/2015 | FreeDV HF Digital Voice QSO Party Set for September 12-13 Weekend
Australia’s Amateur Radio Experimenters Group (AREG) has invited all radio amateurs interested in HF digital voice communication to take part in the FreeDV HF Digital Voice QSO Party over the September 12-13 weekend. The Wireless Institute of Australia...
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09/11/2015 | ZL1BPU Wins June QST Cover Plaque Award
Murray's article introduces a new digital communications mode
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