ARRL has launched the So Now What? (bi-weekly) podcast for hams getting started in Amateur Radio or returning after an absence.
Join podcast co-hosts Michelle Patnode, W3MVP, ARRL Communications Content Producer; and Joe Carcia, NJ1Q, W1AW Station Manager and ARRL Lab member; “as they explore the topics that every newcomer to amateur radio needs to know.” 1
The first episode is an Introduction to the podcast hosts and to their plans for content.
Are we entering a Maunder Minimum?
Listen to the Doctor discuss long-term propects for propagation improvements in this episode of the
Are you one of those hams who have not tried FT8 yet? Then you might be interested in an introduction to this relatively new mode, presented by Steve Ford (WB8IMY and QST Editor In Chief), in this episode of the
At its annual meeting January 18–19, the ARRL Board of Directors decided that the organization needs to “review, re-examine, and reappraise ARRL’s regulatory and legislative policy with regard to private land use restrictions.”
In order to effectively undertake such a review, the Board adopted a resolution to withdraw its December 18 Petition for Rule Making to the FCC, which sought to amend the Part 97 Amateur Service rules to incorporate the provisions of the Amateur Radio Parity Act (ARPA), without prejudice to refiling. The resolution also is asking members of Congress who had refiled legislation to enact the Amateur Radio Parity Act (ARPA) to refrain from seeking to advance that legislation pending further input from the ARRL.1
