How to run an SSB contest without using your voice ... As you might know, I consider myself a contester. I derive great pleasure from getting on air and making noise during a contest. It gives me a wonderful opportunity to test my station, hone my skills and work on learning something new every time I participate
A fireball that blazed a slow trail across the skies above Michigan and other nearby states and provinces Tuesday night wasn't a meteor but instead a spacecraft making an unexpected homecoming
The American Meteor Society (AMS) received several reports of a fireball seen over Michigan and surrounding US states on October 20, 2021. It was likely the reentry of a defunct Russian satellite known as Kosmos-2551. Watch this Space.Com video
Radio has the charm of being a traditional means of communication, which despite all the new technologies, connects with the public using only one resource: voice
Solar activity declined last week, and on one day (October 17) there were no sunspots at all. Most days this week had the minimum non-zero sunspot number, which is 11, indicating a single sunspot group containing a single sunspot
The ARRL report that two recent Amateur Radio Digital Communications (ARDC) grants will benefit the Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club (SBARC), K6TZ, and Oregon HamWAN
What a fantastic week on Ten. Most sought after were 3DA0RU (Eswatini), J5T (Guinea-Bissau), S9OK (Sao Tome and Principe) and 3DA0WW (Eswatini), popped in for good measure on Sunday
J5T is the Italian DXpedition Team. I do like their QSL card. I did manage to work 3DA0RU on Ten Metres. It used to be Swaziland
The district administration here has sought the service of Ham radio operators to coordinate disaster relief operations in case the communication system gets cut off due to any rain-related incident
