2024 ARRL Field Day is June 22 – 23. The annual event is part emergency communications exercise, part operating event, and part open house for amateur radio. No matter what your local club makes of Field Day, it is sure to be a good opportunity for hams and members of the public to gather socially in a public place and celebrate the joy of radio and wireless communication ..read more

The Livonia Amateur Radio Club is taking part in the nationwide Amateur Radio Field Day event, 2pm Saturday June 22 through 2pm Sunday June 23. A number of "ham" radio stations will be set up and operated "off-grid" on emergency power sources, to demonstrate and practice emergency communications techniques. Public is invited to visit and learn about this interesting and very modern hobby ..read more

The sun has been busy, and it’s been a mixed bag for radio amateurs. Earlier this month, millions of people got a chance to see the aurora borealis for the first time, as the northern lights were active farther south than they had been in decades. The brilliant displays, visible as far south as Mexico, were a result of a series of coronal mass ejections. The energy from our star interacted with particles in the upper atmosphere, causing them to glow in dancing curtains of multicolored light ..read more

The school day at Centennial Campus Center for Innovation Magnet Middle School in Raleigh started a little differently on May 1. Roughly 500 students were in their seats, but their guest teacher was not in the building. He wasn't even on the planet. Instead, NASA astronaut Matthew Dominick was traveling at 17,800 mph 240 miles above the Earth in orbit as a commander on the International Space Station (ISS). Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) had arranged the lesson. Each year, the group conducts roughly 100 of these special amateur radio contacts between students around t ..read more

The Federal Communications Commission’s Public Safety and Homeland Security Bureau wants to know if you noticed any impacts to radio communications during the storm. In a public notice, the FCC wrote ..read more

WATERTOWN -- Ham radio operators from the Tri County Amateur Radio Club (TCARC) will be participating in a national amateur radio exercise at the Wisconsin Aviation Watertown Airport from 1 p.m. on Saturday until 1 p.m. on Sunday, June 22-23. The event is ARRL Field Day, an annual amateur radio activity organized since 1933 by ARRL, The National Association for Amateur Radio in the United States. Hams from across North America ordinarily participate in Field Day by establishing temporary ham radio stations in public locations to demonstrate their skill and service. Their radio signals, which r ..read more

WATERTOWN -- Ham radio operators from the Tri County Amateur Radio Club (TCARC) will be participating in a national amateur radio exercise at the Wisconsin Aviation Watertown Airport from 1 p.m. on Saturday until 1 p.m. on Sunday, June 22-23. The event is ARRL Field Day, an annual amateur radio activity organized since 1933 by ARRL, The National Association for Amateur Radio in the United States. Hams from across North America ordinarily participate in Field Day by establishing temporary ham radio stations in public locations to demonstrate their skill and service. Their radio signals, which r ..read more

On Saturday, ICEMARC, the Indiana County emergency preparedness ham radio group, again will transmit about the legacy of Jimmy Stewart. Outside the entrance to the Jimmy Stewart Museum along Ninth and Philadelphia streets, ICEMARC will connect with amateur radio operators from around the world. They'll transmit all day in remembrance of Jimmy Stewart, his virtues, his legendary film career and his character. The club expects ham radio operators from all continents to connect with the local team to trade information, call signs and contact information ..read more

The Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club (SBARC) has had a comfortable home at the Vic Trace Reservoir on the Mesa for half a century. But after 72 years, the reservoir is in need of an upgrade, and the club has been asked to leave. An upcoming project will create two five-million-gallon water reservoirs and will use the entire property during construction, including the land that SBARC’s building is on. In January, the Public Works Department informed the radio club that they have until July 30 to vacate. "We are going to have investigative equipment showing up to do boring, and having to work ar ..read more

GREENE COUNTY -- Today is the first day of one of the biggest amateur radio events of the year. Hamvention will occur on Friday through Sunday at the Greene County Fairgrounds and Expo Center in Xenia. At least 33,000 people passed through the gate last year and advance sales have exceeded last year's total for the same period, according to a spokesperson ..read more