Club meetings for 2024
W9UDU meeting schedule for 2024 The club meetings take place every year on the second Tuesday of February, April, June, August, October and December. Below is the schedule for 2024:… Read more »
Welcome to the World of Amateur Radio
If you are are among the many people that enjoy listening to Amateur Radio also known as HAM radio, you probably already realize how much fun it can provide. Many… Read more »
- VOTA Red Badges On The Air Event December 17on December 7, 2023 at 5:05 PM
2023 has been a fun operating year for ARRL’s Year of the Volunteers with the Volunteers On the Air (VOTA) event. To help members boost their VOTA point totals, ARRL is hosting a Red Badges on the Air activity on December 17, 2023, from 1500 - 2100 UTC. The objective of the event is to provide an opportunity for VOTA participants to work more ARRL officers and elected officials, such as Directo...
- New Amateur Extra-Class Question Pool Released Effective July 1, 2024on December 7, 2023 at 4:39 PM
The National Conference of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC) Question Pool Committee (QPC) has released the 2024 - 2028 Extra-Class FCC Element 4 Question Pool and Syllabus to the public. The new Extra-Class Question Pool is effective from July 1, 2024, through June 30, 2028. The 2024 - 2028 pool is available as a Microsoft Word document and as a PDF. The 10 graphics required for the new ...
- ARDC and ARRL Announce $2.1 Million for the Next Generation of Amateur Radioon December 6, 2023 at 6:00 PM
- NCVEC Question Pool Committee Removes Two General-Class License Questionson December 6, 2023 at 3:07 PM
The National Conference of Volunteer Examiner Coordinators (NCVEC) Question Pool Committee (QPC) has removed two General-class license questions. Pursuant to the November 13, 2023, FCC rule change to remove symbol rate restrictions on amateur radio digital emissions (http://www.arrl.org/news/arrl-hails-fcc-action-to-remove-symbol-rate-restrictions), the QPC of the NCVEC has deleted two question...
- Florida Hams Make Contact 100 Miles Apart via 10-Meter Repeater… in Switzerland.on December 3, 2023 at 3:00 PM
When 10 meters is open, amazing things can happen. Lu Romero, W4LT, knows that well. He said, “When 10 is open, I often venture up into the top of the band to see if there is any FM activity. I’ve always liked to use 10 FM, especially when conditions are marginal to observe the Faraday phase distortion on signals. Before FT8, 10 FM was always a good way to discover where the band was propagatin...