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American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources Apr 18, 2025 | 17:17 pmSpaceweather.com reports a Cannibal Coronal Mass Ejection on April 15 sparked geomagnetic storms. On April 16, the storm became severe (G4) with Northern Lights sighted as far south as France. The storm is subsiding now to a category G1/G2, which could still produce high-latitude auroras. Although Regions AR4062 and AR4064 have been relatively quiet they are more structurally complex than ant...
Read more...Former ARRL Vice Director Wayne Overbeck, N6NB, SK
American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources Apr 18, 2025 | 14:19 pmFormer ARRL Vice Director and Contest Advisory Committee Chairman Wayne Overbeck, N6NB, passed away Saturday April 12, 2025. He was 82 years old. Overbeck held an Amateur Extra-class license and was active in amateur radio for over 68 years. He served four terms as an elected ARRL Vice Director, from 1984 to 1993, and was also chairman of the ARRL Contest Advisory Committee during the 1970s and...
Read more...Paul “Tad” Cook, K7RA, SK
American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources Apr 18, 2025 | 13:56 pmPaul “Tad” Cook, K7RA, passed away on April 13, 2025. For 36 years, Cook wrote the weekly W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin and the K7RA Solar Update for the ARRL Letter. He retired in January 2025, citing a recent ALS diagnosis and on March 8, Cook received the ARRL President’s Award presented to him by ARRL Northwestern Division Director Mark Tharp, KB7HDX.Several weeks ago, Robin Amundson, ...
Read more...World Amateur Radio Day – International Amateur Radio Union Formed 100 Years Ago
American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources Apr 17, 2025 | 13:53 pmApril 18th is honored as World Amateur Radio Day, when we celebrate the founding of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU). The organization was born out of a meeting in Paris on April 17, 1925. ARRL took a leadership role in its founding, with ARRL Founder Hiram Percy Maxim, then 1AW, serving as the first President of IARU.As reported by Kenneth B. Warner, 1BHW, in the June 1925 edition ...
Read more...ARRL Videos Document Next Generation DXing Program at International DX Convention
American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources Apr 17, 2025 | 13:48 pm
Read more...ARRL Files Comments Responding to FCC Request for Input
American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources Apr 14, 2025 | 15:31 pmARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® filed comments [PDF] with the Federal Communications Commission in response to its request for public input on alleviating unnecessary regulatory burdens by deleting or modifying rules, In the Matter of Delete, Delete, Delete. Implementing ARRL’s suggestions would promote and protect the art, science, and enjoyment of amateur radio, and enhance ...
Read more...The ARRL Solar Report
American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources Apr 11, 2025 | 14:20 pmDue to most of the regions on the solar disk being fairly simple intheir magnetic complexity, solar activity is expected to remain atlow levels with a chance for M-class flares (R1 to R2, or Minor toModerate).Solar wind parameters are expected to trend further towards nominallevels as the Coronal Hole High-Speed Stream effects continue towane.Additional enhancements from another negative polari...
Read more...Effort to Save Marconi Towers in Canada – Public Invited to Vote on Project
American Radio Relay League | Ham Radio Association and Resources Apr 10, 2025 | 14:01 pmThere’s an effort underway to save some of Marconi’s original towers, and an online poll is open for people to vote on it being a restoration project through the “Next Great Save” project from the National Trust for Canada.Some of Marconi’s first messages were received and transmitted using the Battle Harbour Marconi Towers, thought to be the last of their kind standing in North America. News o...
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