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  • ARRL Renews Defense of the 902-928 MHz Amateur Radio Band

    ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® in a recent filing encouraged the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to listen to industry stakeholders about the detrimental impacts that changes to the 902-928 MHz band would have for current users.

    The FCC is considering a petition by NextNav, Inc., a licensee in the 900-MHz Location and Monitoring Service (LMS), to reconfigure the 902-928...

  • The ARRL Solar Report

    The Solar Geophysical Activity Report and Forecast from the
    USAF/NOAA indicates that solar activity has been at low levels for
    the past 24 hours.

    There are currently four numbered sunspot regions on the solar disk.
    Solar activity is expected to be low with a chance for M-class
    flares on May 10 and 11.

    A simultaneous filament eruption produced a narrow Coronal Mass
    Ejection (CME) signature that was fir...

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  • Johns Hopkins University to Hold ARRL Teachers Institute

    A session of the ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology (TI) is being hosted this summer by the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Lab in Laurel, Maryland. This marks the first time a major research university has hosted the ARRL program.

    The TI program is expanding significantly in 2025. Already, an institute was held on Staten Island, New York, to mark the first regional session....

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  • Heritage CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame Inductees Named

    The Heritage CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame, created by longtime amateur radio publisher Richard Ross, K2MGA (SK), will continue to honor amateur radio operators on a new section of the Hamgallery.com website.

    CQmagazine ceased publication in October 2023. Ross died on April 27, 2024, and the change was made with the permission of his widow, Cathy.

    The Heritage CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame hono...

  • Clock is Ticking Down to 2025 Dayton Hamvention

  • The ARRL Solar Report

    On May 2, Spaceweather.com reported: "Astronomers are monitoring a
    very large sunspot now turning toward Earth. Sunspot AR4079
    stretches more than 140,000 km from end to end and has two dark
    cores each large enough to swallow Earth. Moreover, it is surrounded
    by a ring of Ellerman Bombs.

    "Ellerman bombs are a sign of magnetic complexity in a sunspot.
    Opposite polarities bump together, reconnect, and-...

  • 630-Meter Band Worked All States Awards Issued

    by Sierra Harrop, W5DX

    Eric Tichansky, NO3M, of Saegertown, Pennsylvania, has been issued the first Worked All States award from ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® for the 630-meter band. He picked up the award at ARRL Headquarters in Newington, Connecticut, on April 21, 2025. That was the culmination of years of study, work, and experimentation.

    Tichansky had a draw to 160 meters e...

  • ARRL Announces Change in Atlantic Division Leadership

    Martin J. “Marty” Pittinger, KB3MXM, has resigned as Vice Director of the ARRL Atlantic Division, effective April 28, 2025.

    Pittinger had been Vice Director since January 2023, when he was appointed to the role. He was elected in November 2023 to a three-year term that began January 1, 2024. Pittinger previously served as Section Manager of the ARRL Maryland/DC Section.

    ARRL President Rick Roder...