The Comet CAA-500 antenna analyzer is a professional class instrument for measuring SWR, resonance and impedance. It features a highly sensitive, high precision Yokogawa meter for measurement accuracy in seven ranges covering 1.8 to 500 MHz. Impedance is 12.5 to 300 ohms. VSWR 1:1 to infinity. Digital readout accurate to 1 kHz. The decimal point…
Members of United Nations Amateur Radio Club KT1J, NT2X, K1ZK, UN7TER, N1JEZ, SM6LRR, RA9USU, KR2Q will be active from United Nations Headquarters New York in celebration of 70th anniversary of United Nations Day as 4U70UN. They receive authorization to operate from United Nations Garden. Operation will be limited with time and with equipment. QSL via…
Every accomplished DXer was a beginner at one time. In 2010 I wrote the first edition of this handbook for new members of the Utah DX Association. It was intended to give them something that would be easy to understand yet would quickly teach them the basic skills of successful DXing that took me years…
After a long service to the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), and Amateur Radio generally around the world through the International Amateur Radio Union, Dave Sumner K1ZZ is to retire in May next year. On the ARRL full-time staff for 44 years, he had held various titles including Secretary, General Manager and the Chief Executive…
AMSAT-NA announced in late April 2015 that, if all goes according to plan, an Amateur Radio payload will go into space on a geosynchronous satellite planned for launch in 2017. The ARRL report that AMSAT-NA has accepted the opportunity to be a “hosted payload” on a spacecraft that Millennium Space Systems (MSS) of El…