The August 2025 Contest Corral is available for download from the ARRL Contest Calendar page.

ARRL Field Day 2025 is now in the history books. The Red River Radio Amateurs once again activated their club callsign—W0ILO—as a Class 3A¹ station from the Cass County Highway Department in West Fargo, ND.

We had 22 visitors and operators on our sign-in sheet at the end of the event, including some who were visiting us for the first time to see what ham radio was all about.

Toilets on the Air (TOTA) is an exciting new contest for licensed radio amateurs during HOPE_16. Compete to make the most voice, CW, and digital contacts with other attendees for points and awards like “Worked All Toilets”. ¹

And, yes, T2T is a real thing! 🚻 ↔️ 🚻

for Commercial Satellite Communications in FCC Filing.

This may well be the most significant challenge to date to one of Amateur Radio’s most popular bands. It’s particularly significant for Amateur Radio space communications, as that usage directly competes with this company’s use case — satellite communications.

In DA 25-532, released 2025-06-20, the FCC Space Bureau has accepted a filing from AST SpaceMobile to conduct Telemetry, Tracking, and Command (TT&C) in both space-to-Earth and Earth-to-space communications modes in 430–440 MHz. In the document, AST SpaceMobile is referenced as AST & Science, LLC (AST).

The July 2025 Contest Corral is available for download from the ARRL Contest Calendar page.