On March 22, 2024, ARRL News reported on a change to FCC policy which will nudge Amateur Radio licensing a bit further into the 21st century: beginning March 29, 2024, multifactor (AKA two factor) authentication will be required to login to the Commission Registration System (CORES).
CORES is the FCC system used to pay any application or regulatory fees, manage or reset a password on an existing FRN, or request a new FRN.
On March 15, 2024, ARRL News announced the 2024 ARRL Field Day Theme: Be Radio Active
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.
In this episode of ARRL’s monthly On The Air podcast: “Maintaining a junk box—a collection of odds and ends that can be used in future projects and repairs—is a time-honored practice among hams. Every ham radio junk box has to start somewhere, though. The cover story of the January/February 2024 issue of On the Air, A Fine Mess: Starting Your Junk Box, by Eric P. Nichols, KL7AJ, offers advice about how to do just that. The January 2024 episode of the On the Air podcast digs deeper by going on location to the workshop of W1AW, ARRL’s Hiram Percy Maxim Memorial Station. Station Manager Joe Carcia, NJ1Q, welcomes us into this working space to show us some real-life junk boxes and discuss how they come in handy. “1
In this episode of ARRL’s monthly On The Air podcast: “This episode ties into a feature in the November/December issue called Bits and Baud, which discussed important elements of digital communication, namely the quantity of information a transmission delivers—known as bit rate—and the rate of speed at which the information is delivered, which is known as baud rate. The article’s author, former QST Editor Steve Ford, WB8IMY, joins us to explain more about the differences between bit rate and baud rate, as well as why hams are concerned with these measurements in the first place.” 1
