2022 SAQ Christmas Message Canceled Due to COVID
On December 22, 2022, The Alexander association announced cancellation of the 2022 SAQ Christmas Message.
FreeDV Activity Day Is Now a Monthly Event
Contribute to the advancement of radio art by participating in the (now) monthly FreeDV 48 hour Activity Day. On the third weekend of each month you can join other FreeDV users on the air for QSOs and a fun time.
75th Anniversary of the Transistor
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.
Share Christmas Spirit Through Ham Radio
Take a break from your holiday preparations by introducing our youth to Amateur Radio.
Morse is dead ... long live Morse!
One of the oldest means of electronic messaging is Morse code. Developed by Alfred Vail and Samuel Morse and sent for the first time on the 24th of May 1844, Morse code changed the way we communicate.
For nearly a century it was required to become a licensed radio amateur until in 2003, the International Telecommunications Union or ITU left it to the discretion of individual countries to decide if a budding amateur needed to demonstrate their ability to send and receive in Morse. With that decision many thought that the end of Morse code was only a matter of time.
They were wrong.
