Days before the end of the current congressional session, Congressman Bill Johnson (OH-6) introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives (H.R. 9670) to eliminate private land use restrictions that prohibit, restrict, or impair the ability of an Amateur Radio Operator from operating and installing amateur station antennas on property subject to the control of the Amateur Radio Operator.
Days before the end of the current congressional session, Congresswoman Debbie Lesko (AZ-08) introduced a bill in the U.S. House of Representatives (H.R. 9664) to require that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) replace the current HF digital symbol rate limit with a 2.8 kHz bandwidth limit.
An important component used in our radios is 75 years old today!
On December 16, 1947, Walter Brattain and John Bardeen—two physicists who were members of Mervin Kelly’s Solid State Physics Group and Semiconductor Sub-Group at Bell Labs—managed to make the first working transistor, now known as the point-contact transistor.
W2AEW has posted a short video on his YouTube channel showing some of his solo Field Day setup at the Guglielmo Marconi Memorial Park in Franklin Twp NJ - former site of the Marconi Wireless Corp East Coast transmitting station.
Be a part of the Amateur Radio tradition of experimentation and learning!
Try out FreeDV—the Open Source Amateur Radio Digital Voice mode—during the February 2022 FreeDV Activity Day.
