Thank You for Making Our Hamfest a Success
Thank-you to the sponsors, attendees, seminar speakers, vendors, volunteers, and our hosts: the Minnesota National Guard. Your support and involvement made this event a great success!
See you next year ‼️
Save The Date for the 2025 RRRA Hamfest
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.
Is the $14 Pork Chop Sandwich Worth the Hype?
Made Famous By @TheSmokinApe …
Let’s see if the Dayton Hamvention Pork Chop Sandwich is worth all the hype.
June Contest Corral
The June 2025 Contest Corral is available for download from the ARRL Contest Calendar page.
Simple HF Antennas for Field Day
“ARRL Education Specialist Wayne Greene, KB4DSF, returns to the podcast to walk readers through his May/June 2025 On the Air article, Building Simple Antennas for 10 and 15 Meters.”1
ARRL Reconsidered
A friend of mine asked recently if perhaps our angst over ARRL was misguided. There is a segment of hams that will hate the ARRL for any reason, often stupid, irrelevant reasons. I still encounter people who are angry about incentive licensing or claim the ARRL is against CW despite running daily CW bulletins. Naturally we should be angry over nefarious activities like canning directors for questionable conflict of interest claims or running shadow boards, but perhaps the decline of ARRL and its membership numbers is just due to the overall decline in the number of people interested in participating in organizations, and out of their control. We see it everywhere, from churches, to fraternal community organizations, to ham clubs with many withering away due to lack of interest.
