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  • ARRL Headquarters Closing for Christmas Holiday 2025

    ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® will close our headquarters early at 12 PM Eastern Standard Time (1700 UTC) on Wednesday, December 24, 2025, and will be closed all day on Thursday and Friday, December 25 - 26 for the Christmas holiday. ARRL will also be closed on Thursday, January 1, 2026, for New Year's Day.

    There will be no W1AW transmissions during the holiday closures. The A...

  • The ARRL Solar Update

    Solar activity has been at low levels with only a few C1 flares from
    Region 4307. Slight growth and consolidation were observed in that
    region as it neared the southwestern limb. Slight decay and
    separation were observed in Region 4311. The rest of the spotted
    regions were either stable or in decay. CME analysis will be
    conducted as imagery becomes available. Solar activity is expected
    to be low with...

  • Up to $25,000 at Stake in New ARRL Student Coding Competition

    Pre-registration is now open for a Student Coding Competition, a new national challenge sponsored by ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio®. The project is designed to engage young radio amateurs in shaping the future of amateur radio through software development. Open to ARRL-member amateur radio operators aged 21 and younger, the competition will invite students to design a mobile a...

  • Obsolete Part 97 Rules to be Deleted February 10, 2026

    The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) in October 2025 adopted a Report and Order to delete almost 400 obsolete rules pertaining to its wireless services. As previously reported by ARRL, among the deletions were four in Part 97 that govern the Amateur Radio Service.

    ARRL reports that the notice of the Report and Order has now been published in the Federal Register. Unless an objection is ra...

  • The ARRL Solar Update

    Solar activity reached high levels this past week when Region 4299
    produced an M1.1 (R1/Minor) flare on December 6. Shortly after, the
    region produced an M8.1/2b (R3/Strong) flare, also on December 6.
    Associated with the M8.1 flare was a 1,100 SFU Tenflare, a 1,143
    km/s Type II sweep and a Type IV sweep. (A "sweep" is a solar radio
    burst that sweeps through the RF spectrum as the energy moves
    outward...

  • Help Someone Get Their FIRST Ham Radio License by the End of 2025

  • FCC Allocates 60-Meter World-Wide Amateur Band Approved at WRC-15; Continues Amateur Use of Four Additional 60-Meter Channels, and Updates 420 MHz Coordination Information

    The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) on December 9, 2025, released a long-awaited Report and Order adopting a new amateur radio spectrum allocation in the 60-meter band that was approved for world-wide use on a secondary basis in the WRC-15 (World Radiocommunication Conference 2015) Final Acts. The Commission also agreed with a petition from ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radi...

  • ARRL to Host 2026 HamSCI Workshop at Central Connecticut State University

  • The ARRL Solar Update

    Solar activity was at low levels this past week with only C class
    flares. Region 4294 remains the largest region on the disk but is
    appearing to be simplifying magnetically. Region 4296, on the other
    hand, gained a delta region in its intermediary region, though with
    no corresponding increase in flare activity as of yet. New flux
    emerged along the eastern side of Region 4298, resulting in several
    C f...

  • Operators/Monitors Wanted for Meteor Scatter QSO Party December 12-13