The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) refuses to add Catalonia to the list of countries of the DXCC diploma, although it meets all the requirements according to its bases and with the aggravating factor that ignores more than two thousand radio amateurs who have signed up to the change.org platform in favor of the recognition…
Forget TikTok and Instagram – children and teenagers want to learn Morse Code! Despite being created 180 years ago and not being a requirement for amateur radio operators to learn since 1990, it has been kept alive by radio enthusiasts – and now more young people are getting involved. A combination of pandemic lockdowns forcing…
A group of Radio Amateurs in the city are literally making waves after they succeeded in indigenously designing and testing low-cost equipment that could help the Hams communicate via QO-100 geo-synchronous satellite. In what is certain to be a gamechanger for radio amateur community, five Hyderabad-based Ham operators have made prototypes of down and up…
Veronica Harrington on Letterman, March 26, 1992. Six-year-old Veronica Harrington displays her ham radio skills.
The International Amateur Radio Union Region 1 Monitoring System (IARUMS) reports in the September issue of the IARUMS newsletter that the Russian-Ukrainian “radio war” on and around 7055 kHz continues to be a major source of frustration. IARUMS Region 1 Coordinator Peter Jost, HB9CET, said the on-the-air conflict “has been bothering us to an unbearable…