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ARRL News

18 May 2025

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

• ARRL Coverage of 2025 Dayton Hamvention - Saturday, May 17

  By: Rich Moseson, W2VU

  What do the Dayton Hamvention® flea market and Xenia, Ohio, weather have in common? They each offer a little bit of everything! Friday’s hot and humid afternoon was followed by thunderstorms at night and cool, windy, weather on Saturday. The Hamvention itself, though, provided consistently positive experiences for just about everyone. ARRL activities were highlighted by th...

• ARRL Coverage of 2025 Dayton Hamvention - Friday, May 16
• The ARRL Solar Report

  After weeks of calm, solar activity is suddenly high again, with two
  strong solar flares erupting from opposite sides of the Sun. A
  Coronal Mass Ejection (CME) was associated with a strong solar flare
  on May 12, but modeling shows the ejection passing behind Earth. The
  geomagnetic field has been at unsettled to active conditions.
  
  A CME associated with a filament eruption in the northern hemisphere
  is...

• ARRL Awards Phil Karn, KA9Q, with Mary Hobart, K1MMH, Medal of Distinction
• ARRL Coverage of 2025 Dayton Hamvention - Thursday, May 15

  By: Rich Moseson, W2VU

  It was a flurry of activity around the exhibit space for ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® and beyond. Trucks being unloaded, tables being arranged, boxes being opened and even tablecloths being ironed were among the sights and sounds Thursday at Ohio’s Greene County Fairgrounds as hundreds of ham radio manufacturers, retailers, clubs, and organizations prep...

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• ARRL Renews Defense of the 902-928 MHz Amateur Radio Band

  ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® in a recent filing encouraged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to listen to industry stakeholders about the detrimental impacts that changes to the 902-928 MHz band would have for current users.

  The FCC is considering a petition by NextNav, Inc., a licensee in the 900-MHz Location and Monitoring Service (LMS), to reconfigure the 902-928...

• The ARRL Solar Report

  The Solar Geophysical Activity Report and Forecast from the
  USAF/NOAA indicates that solar activity has been at low levels for
  the past 24 hours.
  
  There are currently four numbered sunspot regions on the solar disk.
  Solar activity is expected to be low with a chance for M-class
  flares on May 10 and 11.
  
  A simultaneous filament eruption produced a narrow Coronal Mass
  Ejection (CME) signature that was fir...

• Promote Your Club’s 2025 ARRL Field Day With Posters
• Johns Hopkins University to Hold ARRL Teachers Institute

  A session of the ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology (TI) is being hosted this summer by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryland. This marks the first time a major research university has hosted the ARRL program.

  The TI program is expanding significantly in 2025. Already, an institute was held on Staten Island, New York, to mark the first regional session....

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• Heritage CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame Inductees Named

  The Heritage CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame, created by longtime amateur radio publisher Richard Ross, K2MGA (SK), will continue to honor amateur radio operators on a new section of the Hamgallery.com website.

  CQmagazine ceased publication in October 2023. Ross died on April 27, 2024, and the change was made with the permission of his widow, Cathy.

  The Heritage CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame hono...

• Clock is Ticking Down to 2025 Dayton Hamvention
• The ARRL Solar Report

  On May 2, Spaceweather.com reported: "Astronomers are monitoring a
  very large sunspot now turning toward Earth. Sunspot AR4079
  stretches more than 140,000 km from end to end and has two dark
  cores each large enough to swallow Earth. Moreover, it is surrounded
  by a ring of Ellerman Bombs.
  
  "Ellerman bombs are a sign of magnetic complexity in a sunspot.
  Opposite polarities bump together, reconnect, and-...

• 630-Meter Band Worked All States Awards Issued

  by Sierra Harrop, W5DX

  Eric Tichansky, NO3M, of Saegertown, Pennsylvania, has been issued the first Worked All States award from ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® for the 630-meter band. He picked up the award at ARRL Headquarters in Newington, Connecticut, on April 21, 2025. That was the culmination of years of study, work, and experimentation.

  Tichansky had a draw to 160 meters e...

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