Club Announcements

Solar activity was quiet over the past week, but geomagnetic numberswere way, way up.Average daily sunspot numbers dropped from 178.4 to 120, and averagedaily solar flux from 223.7 to 175.7.Average daily planetary A index rocketed from 7.9 to 35.7, andmiddle latitude numbers from 11.1 to 23.4.Six new sunspot groups emerged over the past week; one each onSeptember 13 and 14, two on September 16,...

Michael “Mike” D. Valentine, W8MM, of Cincinnati, Ohio, passed away on Monday, September 16, 2024. He was 74. Mike and his wife of 51 years, Margaret “Peg” K. Valentine, have been the most generous individual supporters of ARRL The National Association of Amateur Radio. Valentine earned his amateur radio license as a teenager. “I was first licensed as WN8MSF and WA8MSF, simultaneously in the sp...

September is National Preparedness Month. In coordination with our partners at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA), the ARRL Amateur Radio Emergency Service® (ARES®) is producing a series of weekly articles to help radio amateurs and their families stay safe.See previous stories:https://www.arrl.org/news/resilience-through-amateur-radio-for-national-preparedness-month https://www.arr...

Ham radio operators volunteering with the ARRL® Amateur Radio Emergency Service® (ARES®) have successfully completed operations for Hurricane Francine, now a tropical storm. “We had a huge positive showing of ARES team members checking in and doing the ‘thing.’ I sincerely appreciate everyone leaning into this activation,” said Robert Hayes, KC5IMN, Section Emergency Coordinator of the ARRL Mis...