ARRL NEWS
Wednesday, 1st May 2024
CQ Magazine Publisher Dick Ross, K2MGA, SK
Longtime amateur radio publisher Dick Ross, K2MGA, has become a Silent Key. He passed away on April 27, 2024.
In 1960, Ross started working for Cowan Publishing Company and quickly became Associate Editor for CQ. In 1964, he was promoted to Editor of CQ, when Cowan Publishing moved its offices to Long Island, New York. As Ross became more involved with the business side of the magazine, he was e...
Saturday, 27th April 2024
MFJ Ceasing On-Site Production
Updated 4:26:24 8:00 pm EDT with additional statement from Martin F. Jue, K5FLU.
MFJ Enterprises, Inc founder Martin F. Jue, K5FLU, announced that as of May 17, 2024, the company will cease on-site production at their Starkville, Mississippi, facility. Ameritron, Hy-Gain, Cushcraft, Mirage, and Vectronics brand products will be affected by the shutdown.
In a letter posted to social media, Jue ...
Friday, 26th April 2024
Youth on the Air (YOTA) will be accepting in-person donations of eclipse glasses
Recycled glasses will be sent home with Argentinian campers attending the 2024 YOTA Summer Camp in the Americas, so that amateur radio operators and youth can safely watch the Annular Solar Eclipse in October. Donations are only being accepted in person at the Dayton Hamvention YOTA Booth #4304 from May 17 - 19 and at the YOTA Summer Camp in the Americas in Halifax, Novia Scotia, Canada, from J...
Friday, 12th April 2024
Ham Radio Active During Eclipse
Millions of people across the United States got to see a rare solar eclipse on Monday, April 8, 2024.
The path of totality -- the line of darkness where the moon fully occluded the sun -- stretched through the South Pacific, Mexico, central Texas, the Ozarks, the Midwest, the Rust Belt area, and to New England through the Maritimes. In all, 14 ARRL Sections were impacted directly and several mor...
The K7RA Solar Update
I did not see last Monday's eclipse, except on television. Here in
the Pacific Northwest, we only got a 20% exposure, and skies were
overcast.
As they moved across the country displaying successive totality, I
noticed the prominences on the edge of the disk. There were always
between one and three little red spots at the edge.
Solar activity over the past reporting week, April 4-10, remains
weak.
Avera...
Sunday, 7th April 2024
2024 ARRL Field Day Poster Released
A poster promoting 2024 ARRL Field Day has been released on the Field Day web page, www.arrl.org/field-day. The two-sided informational poster features this year's theme "Be Radio Active". It includes a space for clubs to fill in information about their planned activation so that members of their community can come visit the site.
More resources for promoting 2024 ARRL Field Day are being develo...