Club Remote Station...

Category: Site Pages
Published: Sunday, 12 April 2020
Written by Super User

The remote club station is running and ready for testing.

Currently, KD8TUT, KW0RM, AD8BU, and N8SS are testing transmit. The radio is available to all Club members as a receiver while we are testing.

You'll need to download the client and create an account from here:

    https://www.remotehams.com/

    Once you have the client installed, start the RCForb client and login to the client (this is the account you setup on the remote hams site).

    Once the client loads: There will be a list of stations. Look for the W8MAI Club Station- double click the station listing.

    The current station is an Apache Labs ANAN 100D.

    Further Documentation will be available in the future, however, here are the software manuals:

    Getting Started: Remote Hams Documentation

 

ARRL News

Category: Site Pages
Published: Thursday, 12 March 2020
Written by Super User

12 November 2024

The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.
  • 2024 ARRL Field Day Results Published

    Results are published, and the numbers are in. They paint a picture of a very active 2024 ARRL Field Day. Nearly 1.3 million contacts were reported during the 24-hour event. That is up from 2023’s 1.25 million contacts. That’s likely indicative of the continued rise of Solar Cycle 25 leading up to the event, but more people also participated this year.

    Entries were received from all 85 ARRL and...

  • Rare California Island to be Activated for Armed Forces Day, First Time in 53 Years

    On Armed Forces Day, May 1971, 53 years ago, two amateur operators working as WZ6SNI, activated San Nicolas Island, IOTA NA-066. At 61 miles, San Nicolas is the most remote of the Channel Islands off the coast of Southern California and is owned by the US Navy.

    Now, weather permitting, Will Costello, WC6DX, has been authorized to be active from San Nicolas Island November 8 - 12, 2024. He is tak...

  • Amateur Radio Activated for Late Season Hurricane

    A rare November hurricane made landfall in western Cuba as a Category 3 storm Wednesday and continued to move slowly toward the northwest Thursday morning. Volunteer ham radio operators were there to provide surface reports to the National Hurricane Center in Miami.

    Hurricane Rafael left Cuba’s 10 million residents without power and on Thursday afternoon was a Category 2 storm moving away from C...

  • ARRL Opening Late on Friday, Nov. 8 and Closed on Veterans Day, Nov. 11

     ARRL® The National Association for Amateur Radio® has two closures coming up for our headquarters in Newington, Connecticut:

    ARRL will be closed on Friday morning, November 8, 2024, for an employee meeting. During the short closure, members are encouraged to use the ARRL website, www.arrl.org, for membership renewals, publication purchases, and to access most benefits, services, and programs. T...

  • Hurricane Rafael - Storm Updates

    Tuesday, November 5, 2024, 11:00 AM Eastern Update:

    The following information is from the Hurricane Watch Net:

    The Hurricane Watch Net will be activated today, Tuesday, as planned, with one minor update. After further review of the timing of the storm and the distance from land, we need to modify our plans. All will remain the same with the exception that we will now operate overnight

    Activation P...

  • ARRL Members Raise $47,000 for STEM Education in Online Auction

    ARRL® The National Association for Amateur Radio® is pleased to announce that the 19th annual ARRL Online Auction, sponsored by RT Systems Inc, raised $47,000 for amateur radio STEM education. 

    The event was held from October 18- 24, 2024. In addition to hundreds of views, the auction saw 329 individual bidders vying for equipment, vintage books, “mystery junk boxes” from the ARRL Lab, and more....

  • The K7RA Solar Update

    Solar activity increased this week. Average daily sunspot number
    went from 127.7 to 197.4 and average solar flux from 170.5 to 240.2.

    Predicted solar flux is 270 on November 1-2, 265 and 260 on November
    3-4, 250 on November 5-7, 214, 195 and 182 on November 8-10, 172,
    168, 174 and 165 on November 11-14, and 162 on November 15-16.

    Predicted planetary A index is 5, 8, 15, and 10 on November 1-4, 5
    on N...

  • ARRL November Sweepstakes CW is Nov 2-3
  • ARRL Recognizes University of Scranton During Amateur Radio Station Dedication

    The University of Scranton in Pennsylvania has a new amateur radio station, W3USR. A dedication was held at the university’s Loyola Science Center on Friday, October 25, 2024, led by Dr. Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF, an associate professor of physics and electrical engineering, and club advisor for the University of Scranton Amateur Radio Club.

    The new W3USR University of Scranton Amateur Radio Sta...

  • 2025 ARRL Foundation Scholarship Program Accepting Applications through Jan 6, 2025

    The 2025 ARRL Foundation Scholarship Program will begin accepting applications on October 30, 2024. Applications will be accepted through January 6, 2025.

    More than 100 scholarships ranging from $500 to $25,000 will be awarded. All applicants must be active, FCC-licensed amateur radio operators. 

    Information, along with the link to the online application, can be found on ARRL’s website: https://w...

  • ARRL VEC Services Update During Systems Disruption

    Updated 10/30/2024

    ARRL previously reported that we are responding to a serious incident involving access to our network and headquarters-based systems. Several services have been affected, including those administered by the ARRL Volunteer Examiner Coordinator (ARRL VEC).

    Exam Registrations and Materials. ARRL Volunteer Examiners (VEs) should continue to submit exam registrations and material re...

  • Dream Rig Contest Underway

    The 5th annual Youth "Dream Rig" Essay Contest has begun to accept submissions.

    The contest is sponsored by The Intrepid-DX Group, a U.S.-based 501 (c) (3) nonprofit organization that promotes amateur radio activities around the world and recognizes the importance of including youth in the amateur radio hobby.

    Contestants must be USA or Canadian amateur radio license holders aged 19 or younger. A...

  • Handbook 101: A New Generation of Amateur Radio
  • The K7RA Solar Update

    Key solar indicators were lower this week, with average daily solar
    flux down from 194.3 to 170.5 and average daily sunspot numbers
    declining from 129.3 to 127.7.

    On October 22, Spaceweather.com reported:

    "THE SUN IS TAKING A QUICK BREAK: Solar Max is hard work. Just ask
    the Sun. After flaring almost without pause for the past 10 months,
    the Sun is taking a quick break. Solar activity has been low fo...

  • 2024 Pacificon Inspires Next Generation of Radio Amateurs

Southgate Amateur Radio News

Category: Site Pages
Published: Thursday, 12 March 2020
Written by Super User

Amateur Radio Daily

12 November 2024

An aggregate of Ham Radio related news.
  • AO-7 Satellite to Celebrate 50 Years in Orbit

    Designed by radio amateurs, AO-7 launched in November of 1974 and is now marking 50 years in orbit. The satellite initially functioned for 6.5 years before its batteries failed. 21 years later AO-7 became operational again.

    A very active user of AO-7, Pat Gowain, G3IOR, from the UK, made a telephone call to Perry Klein, W3PK, (first AMSAT President and designer of the VHF/HF transponder). This was on June 21, 2002. Pat wondered if we had launched a new LEO spacecraft? He was hearing Morse Code Telemetry again on the old beacon frequency of AO-7. He played Perry a tape recording. It sure sounded like AO-7 telemetry!

    AMSAT News Service will honor AO-7 over the next 3 weeks by publishing articles and stories to a special page on the AMSAT website.

    Source: AMSAT

  • ISS SSTV Event Celebrates Amateur Radio in Human Spaceflight

    SSTV images will be transmitted from the International Space Station between November 11th and 18th. The images will feature activities from the 40th Anniversary Celebrating Amateur Radio in Human Spaceflight, an event hosted by ARISS earlier this year at Kennedy Space Center in Florida.

    The event is scheduled to begin on Monday, November 11 at 11:50 UTC and to end Monday, November 18 at 13:40 UTC. SSTV transmissions will be paused during scheduled school contacts on November 15 and 16. Downlink transmissions will be at 145.800 MHz and the mode is expected to be PD 120.

    Certificates will be available to operators uploading images to the ARISS SSTV gallery.

    Source: ARISS

  • AMSAT Space Symposium Publishes Presentations to YouTube

    Presentations from the 42nd AMSAT Space Symposium have been published to YouTube.

    Presentations from day 1 are available here.

    Presentations from day 2 are available here.

    Highlights from day 1 include:

    • CARD-SAT®: A Step Forward for Satellite Miniaturization (0:58:15)
    • Working QO-100 from Beyond the Nominal Footprint (1:18:55)

    Higlights from day 2 include:

    • ARISS Engineering Update – ISS, Lunar, and Commercial Activities (1:47:00)
    • Getting Ready to Receive HamTV from the ISS (3:36:00)

    The banquet keynote address by Brian Abbott (NA7D) and the AMSAT General Meeting are also available to view.

    Source: AMSAT

  • Hedy Lamarr Day Special Event November 9

    The Hedy Lamarr special event net will take place on November 9 to celebrate her technological advancements in ham radio.

    The net will take place at 14:00 UTC (9:00 AM Eastern) on the following digital services:

    • EchoLink on the ROC-HAM Conference Server Node 531091
    • AllStarLink Nodes 2585, 47620, 47918, 531310
    • DMR TGIF Talk Group 2585
    • DMR Extended Freedom Network Talk Group 2585
    • Extended Freedom Network SIP Portal 2585

    An HF net will take place on 20 Meters at 14.313 and utilize NetLogger. QSL cards are available upon request.

    Source: N9H

  • Air Force MARS Special Event Begins Today

    Air Force MARS will hold a special event from November 5 to November 11 celebrating 76 years of operation.

    14 callsigns will make up the event operating SSB, CW, and digital modes across the General portion of the 80 through 6 meter bands. Certificates will be available.

    Source: Air Force MARS

  • Interviews From the spectrum24 Conference

    The initial spectrum24 conference took place in Rambouillet, France on the 14th and 15th of September 2024. Hacker Public Radio was there and recently published several interviews from presenters and sponsors.

    Audio of interviews from day 1 is available here and includes:

    Audio of interviews from day 2 is available here and includes:

    Source: Hacker Public Radio

  • HamSCI Program Gets Boost from $1.8 Million NSF Grant

    Nathaniel Frissell, Ph.D. (W2NAF), associate professor physics and engineering at The University of Scranton was recently awarded a grant of $1.8 million by the National Science Foundation to further the efforts of HamSCI, a network of ham radio operators helping to measure weather effects among the earth's ionosphere.

    According to Dr. Frissell, the grant supports the development of a network of 30 standardized receive stations capable of observing high frequency (HF) Doppler shifts, HF amateur radio Weak Signal Propagation Reporter (WSPR, pronounced “whisper”) transmissions, very low frequency (VLF) transmissions and natural radio emissions, and the geomagnetic field.

    The grant will also fund 10 WSPRSonde transmitters to serve as a source of GPS-stabilized HF beacon signals and will tie into the existing WSPR network.

    HamSCI has recently organized the 2023 and 2024 Solar Eclipse QSO Parties allowing hams to contribute to scientific studies aimed at understanding how the inonosphere reacts to solar eclipses.

    Source: University of Scranton

  • Special Event Celebrates Father of Wireless Communication, Jagadish Chandra Bose

    Special event station AU2JCB will be paying homage to the Indian scientist Jagadish Chandra Bose November 15 through December 16 2024.

    Considered the "Father of Wireless Communication," Bose was a pioneer in microwave optics, and demonstrated wireless communication as early as 1895.

    The special event will operate on the following modes and frequencies:

    • 10M: 28545, 28520, 28350
    • 21M: 21235, 21310, 21350
    • 20M: 14210, 14250, 14310
    • 40M: 7040, 7150
    • 80M: 3710
    • 6M FM: 50800, 51500
    • 10M FM: 29700

    Source: AU2JCB

  • Ham's Radio Podcast Broadcasts Each Sunday

    Ham's Radio is a weekly radio broadcast and podcast that highlights ham radio stories from across the globe. The radio broadcasts originate from Radio Narita outside of Tokyo, Japan. 83.7 FM is a community radio station, equivalent to a low power FM station (LPFM) found in the US.

    Every first Sunday features a Ham Ham English segment in which an article is discussed in English to help listeners get more familiar with the English language. The most recent episode features Keith Mowell (KE4KDY) who was in town for Ham Fair. He has experience operating from the Guantanamo Bay military base in Cuba. A version of the page translated to English is available here.

    Thanks to Kei Yoshihara (JA1WTO) for the tip!

    Source: Ham's Radio

  • War of the Worlds Special Event Sunday

    The Delaware Valley Radio Association will be hosting a special event on Sunday October 27, recognizing the 86th anniversary of the Orson Welles broadcast of The War of the Worlds. The special event callsign will be W0W operating from Grovers Mill, New Jersey, US, between noon and 5:00 PM Eastern Time. Operating modes will include voice and CW.

    Source: Delaware Valley Radio Association

  • Amateur Radio Daily Content Available Under Creative Commons License

    The text portion of Amateur Radio Daily is now licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International license. This license requires that reusers give credit to the creator. It allows reusers to distribute, remix, adapt, and build upon the material in any medium or format, even for commercial purposes. If others remix, adapt, or build upon the material, they must license the modified material under identical terms.

    The intent for adopting a Creative Commons license is to further their mission of sharing of knowledge and culture in the public interest. This license should also provide clarity around how the content of this website may be reused.

    The underlying code, design, and branding of Amateur Radio Daily remains copyrighted work of Cale Mooth.

    Source: Amateur Radio Daily

  • Solar Eclipse QSO Party Contest Winners Announced

    The Solar Eclipse QSO Party provided hams an opportunity to operate during both the 2023 and 2024 solar eclipses. In addition to the contest, the event contributed to scientific studies focusing on the ionosphere’s reaction to the eclipse. The 2024 contest results have been released with Dennis Egan (W1UE) taking the top spot in the single op category and Souris Valley Amateur Radio Club (K0AJW) taking the top spot in the multi op category. More information and full results are available on the HamSCI website.

    Source: HamSCI

  • Halloween in Pasadena Special Event

    The South Pasadena Amateur Radio Club (SPARC) invites operators from around the world to experience the frightful delight of Halloween as only our town can celebrate it. Dozens of famous movies and television shows have used South Pasadena as a location, including the original Halloween (1978). On October 31, our club will operate outside the South Pasadena Historical Museum which sits one block south of “Michael Myers’s house” from the classic horror film. We will use the special event call sign W6H.

    Modes of operation will include phone, CW, and FT8. Logs for the event will be logged to QRZ.com under the SPARC call W6SPR. QSL cards will be available. See additional updates on Mastodon.

    Source: South Pasadena Amateur Radio Club

  • Latest FreeDV GUI Includes RADE HF Digital Voice Mode

    The latest version of FreeDV includes a new digital voice over HF mode titled Radio Autoencoder (RADE). Previous updates have abbreviated the mode as RADAE. The new mode has been in development since early 2024 and is now entering a phase of real time, over the air testing. A September FreeDV update includes recorded samples of the mode from over the air tests. The samples include QSOs ranging from 800-13,000 km and 2-5db SNR.

    Editor's note: To this ham's ear, the voice quality from the provided examples sound far superior to any previously released FreeDV HF digital voice modes!

    RADE description from the GitHub project:

    A hybrid Machine Learning/DSP system for sending speech over HF radio channels. The RADAE encoder takes vocoder features such as pitch, short term spectrum and voicing and generates a sequence of analog PSK symbols. These are placed on OFDM carriers and sent over the HF radio channel. The decoder takes the received PSK symbols and produces vocoder features that can be sent to a speech decoder. The system is trained to minimise the distortion of the vocoder features over HF channels. Compared to classical DSP approaches to digital voice, the key innovation is jointly performing transformation, prediction, quantisation, channel coding, and modulation in the ML network.

    Source: FreeDV

  • Opinion: It's Time for Ham Clubs to Move Away from the PDF Newsletter

    It's time for ham radio clubs to move away from the PDF based newsletter as a primary publishing format.

    The purpose of this post is to help amateur radio clubs and organizations get their content in front of more hams. The PDF format is problematic because it acts as a walled garden, limiting the ways in which the content inside can be discovered by search engines, social media, and ultimately the hams looking for good information.

    Read the full article here.

    Source: K4HCK

  • USA Radio Orienteering Championship Results

    Radio Orienteering, also known as Amateur Radio Direction Finding (ARDF), is a multi-skill sport that involves running and navigating using only a map and compass (orienteering) while using a hand-held radio receiver and antenna to locate multiple transmitters hidden in a forest.

    The top finishers of the 23rd USA Radio Orienteering Championship include:

    • Gheorghe Fala
    • Eduard Nasybulin
    • Erin Hammer
    • Sandra Quinn Giovannini
    • Lori Huberman
    • William Wright (WB6CMD)
    • Nadia Scharlau (KO4ADV)
    • Natalia Leoni
    • Roland Woodward (KQ4QYZ)

    The 2024 event was hosted by the ARRL, the Southern Michigan Orienteering Club, and the Chelsea Amateur Radio Club.

    Source: The Sun Times News

  • Special Event Celebrates First Trans-Global Two-Way Radio Communication

    To commemorate the centenary of this historic contact made by Goyder and Bell, Mill Hill School will be hosting working amateur radio stations from 14th to 20th October 2024. On 18th October 2024 UK and New Zealand amateurs will recreate the first Goyder contact on a wavelength close to that used in 1924. The stations at Mill Hill, using the original callsign G2SZ will be contacting many of the 3.5 million other radio amateurs around the globe during the week. New Zealand radio amateurs will also be taking part in the celebrations – using the call ZL4AA from the original sheep farm in Shag Valley from 12th to 18th October 2024.

    In addition, two special event stations will operate around the UK and New Zealand, GB2NZ from 29 September to 26 October and ZM100DX from 29 September to 26 December 2024.

    More information can be found on the GB2NZ website.

    Source: GB2NZ

  • HAARP Active for Routine Tests and Maintenance

    The following is a press release from the HAARP Program Office

    Date: October 14, 2024
    To: Amateur Radio & Radio Astronomy Communities
    From: HAARP Program Office
    Subject: Notice of Transmission

    The High-frequency Active Auroral Research Program (HAARP) will be performing routine systems testing and maintenance on October 15-17 UTC, with operating times specified in the table below. Operating frequencies will be 3.3 MHz, 5.8 MHz, and 9.6 MHz. All information is subject to change. For more information on research at HAARP, see the online HAARP FAQ at https://haarp.gi.alaska.edu/faq.

    October 15
    1700-2400 UTC
    3.3, 5.8, 9.6 MHz

    October 16
    1700-2400 UTC
    3.3, 5.8, 9.6 MHz

    October 17
    1700-2400 UTC
    3.3, 5.8, 9.6

    Each frequency will be transmitted in four different directions.

    There are no specific data collection requests for these transmissions, but reception reports are welcome and may be submitted to This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it..

    Source: HAARP

  • SETI Institute, Slippers2Sat, Ham Radio Village Updates

    ARDC has released an series of updates from various projects funded by the organization through their grant program.

    SETI Institute has developed a curriculum for community colleges which teaches signal processing and digital communications.

    ARISS hosted contact with the International Space Station at a school in Cape Town South Africa in which 1,000 students and astronomers observed. The event can be viewed on YouTube.

    Ham Radio Village hosted a presentation at the HOPE conference titled Ham Radio for Hackers. An accompanying technician class resulted in 25 attendees receiving their amateur radio license.

    Slippers2Sat Project was featured on Nepalese National TV. The project aims to enable middle school students to build a CubeSat.

    Source: ARDC

  • ARISS asks Educators for Proposals for ISS Contact Opportunity

    ARISS is requesting US educators to submit proposals for upcoming amateur radio contact opportunities with the International Space Station.

    [ARISS] Program is seeking formal and informal education institutions and organizations, individually or working together, to host an Amateur Radio contact with a crew member on board the ISS. ARISS anticipates that the contact would be held between July 1, 2025 and December 31, 2025. Crew scheduling and ISS orbits will determine the exact contact dates. To maximize these radio contact opportunities, ARISS is looking for organizations that will draw large numbers of participants and integrate the contact into a well-developed education plan.

    Proposals are open until November 17th. An ARISS Introductory Webinar session will be held via Zoom on Wednesday, October 16 at 7 PM ET. Sign up for the Zoom session here.

    Source: ARISS

QRZ Amateur Radio News

Category: Site Pages
Published: Thursday, 12 March 2020
Written by Super User

12 November 2024

Newsworthy articles about Amateur Radio.

BARA Ham of the Year Recipients

Category: Site Pages
Published: Wednesday, 25 September 2019
Written by Tim Richards
Year Name Call Sign
2008 Annie Kaeding W8ALK
2009 Bill Wheeler W8JBA
2010 Gary Wallis KB8VIM
2011 Chuck Davis KC8YTA
2012 Matt Adrian KD8ZB
2013 Randy Kaeding K8TMK
2014 Ron Ackerman N8KBG
2015 Tim Richards KD8NOH
2016 Dan Utroske KF8Z
2017 Ken Jewell N8OL
2018 Bob Mann W8LHP
2019 Matt Severin N8MS
2020 Ron Warczynski K9RON
2021 Frank Lemanski AD8BU
2022 Ira Bilancio NX8I