Mark your calendar and save the date for the 2025 RRRA Hamfest and ARRL Dakota Division Convention. This is the largest Hamfest in North Dakota drawing attendees from 3 states and 1 Canadian province.

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

2025 ARRL Field Day will be here before you know it! We’re just 7 weeks away from ham radio’s biggest event, held each year on the 4th full weekend of June (28 – 29 for 2025). The theme of “Radio Connects” highlights the many ways amateur radio makes connections.

This article has been in the draft queue for some time and it seems appropriate to complete it as a companion to the previous article.

On the eve of Hamvention 2025, the largest (?) Amateur Radio conference in the world, I think it’s an opportune moment to recognize that Amateur Radio, like all other organized activities, needs to constantly renew itself with new entrants. My perception from my research for Zero Retries is that this trend — more technical entrants, is not widely recognized, or perhaps is only just now beginning to be recognized. And, perhaps more importantly, what these new Amateur Radio Operators are expecting from, and contributing to Amateur Radio.

Eric Tichansky, NO3M, of Saegertown, Pennsylvania, has been issued the first Worked All States award from ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® for the 630-meter band. He picked up the award at ARRL Headquarters in Newington, Connecticut, on April 21, 2025. That was the culmination of years of study, work, and experimentation.