UTC Approvals to Use 630- and/or 2,200-Meter Bands Arriving via E-Mail https://t.co/5FGdIwgHAv #ARRL #HamRadio

— ARRL (@arrl) October 16, 2017

Amateur Radio Operators in the United States have access to a large amount of microwave spectrum:

• 1.24–1.3 GHz
• 2.3–2.31 GHz
• 3.3–3.5 GHz
• 5.65–5.925 GHz
• 10.0–10.5 GHz
• 24.0–24.25 GHz
• 47.0–47.2 GHz
• 76.0–81.0 GHz
• 122.25–123.0 GHz
• 134–141 GHz
• 241–250 GHz
• All above 275.0 GHz [ 1 ]

This spectrum is available to all Hams, Technician class and up, and is a great place to contribute to the advancement of the radio art through experimentation and homebrewing. It also needs to be used or it will be given away.

Amateur radio operators can use the APRSlink gateway to manage their Winlink accounts using an APRS equipped radio.

The APRSlink gateway allows APRS users to:

Rediscover the spirit of home brewing with K9EID’s Pine Board Project.

Pine Board Transmitter Building:: The Pine Board Project begins building 80 and 40 meter AM… https://t.co/qgTAsmOM9Z

— DXER (@kc9ldo) July 16, 2017

WSJT-X version 1.8.0 includes a new mode named FT8

This mode features:

• QSOs 4 times faster than JT65 or JT9
• Sensitivity down to -20 dB on the AWGN channel
• Auto-sequencing includes an option to respond automatically to first decoded reply to your CQ

WSJT-X source code; along with installation packages for Windows, Linux, OS X, and Raspbian; is available for download at http://physics.princeton.edu/pulsar/K1JT/wsjtx.html