2026 Membership Renewals Are Due
at the January Club ActivityMembership renewals for 2026 are due at the January Club Activity.
Ham Radio as an Alternative for Cell Phone Failure
Ham Radio was mentioned as a way to communicate when networks go down in a February 22, 2024, news article about that day’s nation-wide cell-phone service outage.
Introducing blogs.radio
View the headlines and read articles from a large number of Amateur Radio news and opinion blogs—without having to visit many different websites—by using the blogs.radio aggregator.
This service was launched by DK1MI on September 1, 2023.
March Contest Corral
The March 2024 Contest Corral is available for download from the ARRL Contest Calendar page.
What Is Amateur Radio as an Emergency Response?
I recently discussed some of the notions of amateur radio as emergency response. The idea that you might jump into the breach and be a hero is appealing and often celebrated.
The Joys of Being a General
In this episode of ARRL’s monthly On The Air podcast: “The January/February 2024 issue of On the Air featured a story from Brian McSpadden Gardener, KE8JVX, about The First-Year Experiences of a General-Class Ham, in which Brian detailed how he got his feet wet as a General, and how he put together his first station for HF.
