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 ‼️
Public Service Announcement for Preparedness
Zero Retries Editor’s Note - In the aftermath of Hurricane Helene, there is water, water, everywhere, and not a drop to drink. My thanks to N2IRZ for these very good, basic points about survival in a disaster. Without the basics of life, like safe water, and especially enough safe water, the “nice to haves” like communications won’t make a difference.
The 52 Week Ham Radio Challenge 2025
📆 52 weeks, 52 challenges 📻. Can you master them all?
The challenge starts January 1, 2025.
November Contest Corral
The November 2024 Contest Corral is available for download from the ARRL Contest Calendar page.
Zombie Shuffle 2024
The QRP zombies were out and about on the bands last night (October 25th). I got on the air for some of the annual Zombie Shuffle. This year was a little different experience for me from past years, but it was still fun.
Ham Radio Clubs: It's time to move away from the PDF Newsletter
It’s time for ham radio clubs to move away from the PDF based newsletter as a primary publishing format.
The purpose of this post is to help amateur radio clubs and organizations get their content in front of more hams. The PDF format is problematic because it acts as a walled garden, limiting the ways in which the content inside can be discovered by search engines, social media, and ultimately the hams looking for good information.
