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04/15/2010 | ARRL Public Relations Committee to Host Field Day Webinar
The ARRL Public Relations Committee -- in conjunction with the ARRL’s Atlantic Division -- will host a “webinar” -- an interactive Web-based seminar, designed to facilitate communication between a small number of presenters and a large remote audience usi
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04/14/2010 | Help Keep the W1AW Dream Alive
W1AW. It is the most famous call sign in the century-long history of Amateur Radio. To hundreds of thousands of radio amateurs, W1AW is synonymous with Hiram Percy Maxim --the visionary who first recognized a need for a national network of Amateur Radio o
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04/13/2010 | Welcome to the New ARRL Web Site!
We’d like to welcome you to the new ARRL Web site. After more than two years of work, the staff, officers and Board of Directors are excited to show you what’s in store.
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04/07/2010 | ARRL Responds to FCC's NPRM Calling for New Rules on Vanity and Club Call Signs
In November 2009, the FCC issued a Notice of Proposed Rule Making (NPRM) -- WT Docket No 09-209 -- seeking to amend the Commission's Amateur Radio Service rules in an attempt to clarify certain rules and codify existing procedures governing the vanity cal
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04/07/2010 | ARRL Files Comments in Response to Hospital Association Seeking Blanket Waiver Request for Amateur Radio Drills
In February 2010, the American Hospital Association (AHA) filed a request with the FCC for a blanket waiver of Section 97.113(a)(3) of the Commission's Rules "to permit hospitals seeking accreditation to use Amateur Radio operators who are hospital employ
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04/07/2010 | Moonbounce for Everyone -- Courtesy of the Arecibo Radio Telescope!
Sending Amateur Radio signals to the Moon and back has never been easy. After roundtrip journeys of nearly half a million miles, even the most powerful signals generated by hams are exquisitely weak on arrival. Because of the equipment and expertise neces
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04/05/2010 | New Editions of ARRL Ham Radio License Manual, Tech Q&A Now Available
Discover all the excitement of Amateur Radio when you get your Technician license -- your ticket to the unique mix of fun, public service, technology and experimenting with electronics. The ARRL Ham Radio License Manual and ARRL's Tech Q&A will guide you
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04/05/2010 | Telephone Outage in Nebraska -- No April Fool's Joke
Early on the morning of Thursday, April 1, almost 40,000 people -- including Lincoln's government, business and emergency centers -- in Southeastern Nebraska found out that they had no landline telephone service, as well as spotty cell phone coverage, tha
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