The transmit/receive sequences are 6 seconds--so it's 2.5 times faster than FT8. (And just in time for Field Day...) http://www.southgatearc.org/news/2019/april/new-digital-mode-ft4.htm#.XL9gzC2ZPUI P

The next regular meeting will be May 21 at the St. Thomas More Cathedral School starting at 7 pm. Don Lewis, KI4D, Vice President of the Alexandria Radio Club and planner for the W4HFH Field Day opera

The next regular meeting will be April 16 at the St. Thomas More Cathedral School starting at 7 pm. Activities Chairman Gary Sessums, KC5QCN, will give a presentation on "Shortwave Listening." At this

Hams try to re-carve the amateur radio spectrum in fight over open or encoded broadcasts Radio enthusiasts argue signals must travel in the open, for the sake of national security By Thomas Claburn in

Please join us for the April meeting of the Arlington Amateur Radio Club. Date and time: April 16, 2019, 7 p.m. Place: St. Thomas More Cathedral School, 105 N. Thomas St, Arlington, Va. Talk-in: W4WVP

This year's event is scheduled for May 11. More details will be forthcoming. Here are some photos from last year's activities, courtesy of the Pentagon ARC's website. http://www.k4af.org/2018_AFDCBT/2

A transcript made public on Thursday by a GOP lawmaker in Congress shows that the wife of a top Justice Department official said she got a ham radio license as part of an effort to help with local com

https://www.ghostsintheairglow.space "Pairing air glow experiments in the ionosphere—false auroras creating soft, glowing spots in the sky—with SSTV images, audio and image signals articulated by arti

The ARES E-letter for March 20, 2019, is available at: <http://www.arrl.org/ares-el?issue=2019-03-20>. 73, --Mike NW3V -- Science matters. Matter matters. Energy matters, including dark energy.

1. FCC releases spectrum above 95 GHz to new uses. https://docs.fcc.gov/public/attachments/DOC-356588A1.pdf 2. FCC inspects amateur station and is not happy with amateur. https://docs.fcc.gov/public/a

I have just updated the AARC home page <http://www.w4wvp.org> with information on the meeting tomorrow, including the program to be presented. 73, --Mike nw3v -- Science matters. Matter matters. Energ

The FCC today accepted an ARRL petition to make changes to Technician Class amateur radio licensing. Accepted doesn't mean the FCC has adopted the ARRL's proposals and changed the rules, but it does o

Here is the link for CFR 47 and complete Part 97 of interest to all Amateurs. http://www.ecfr.gov/cgi-bin/text-idx?c=ecfr&SID=29d07c524e7302d66780275fae519299&rgn=div5&view=text&node=47:5.0.1.1.6&idno

Following up on my comments on tonight's net, I pulled the ARNewsline transcript. It reads: *"JOHN: It took four years but Andre ZED-S-2-ACP finally worked all 50 of the United States on 60 metres, re

A link to the APRS presentation by Aaron, KN4GXC, is now on the w4wvp.org Resources page. Thanks to Aaron for the presentation and for providing the link. --Mike NW3V -- Science matters. Matter matter

Please join us for the March meeting of the Arlington Amateur Radio Club. Date and time: March 19, 2019, 7 p.m. Place: St. Thomas More Cathedral School, 105 N. Thomas St, Arlington, Va. Talk-in: W4WVP

The new ARRL podcast, So Now What?, is targeted at beginners--say, those who have passed the Technician Class exam, and are wondering what to do next. It debuted today. ARRL members and non-members al

Not directly about Arlington or AARC, but I think of interest to some in the AARC and/or Arlington CERT: AMRAD has updated their home page at www.amrad.org with this info about their March meeting: 8<

As mentioned on Tuesday night's net, the Virginia QSO Party will be held on 16 and 17 March. Operating hours are 10 am-12 midnight (local) on Saturday March 16, and 8 am - 8 pm (local) on Sunday March

The ARES E-letter for February 1620, 2019, is available at: <http://www.arrl.org/ares-el?issue=2019-02-20>. 73, --Mike NW3V -- Science matters. Matter matters. Energy matters, including dark energy.