Recent News
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07/28/2015 | Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2015 Gains Momentum, Cosponsor List Tops 90
o date, according to the ARRL Regulatory Affairs Office, more than 4300 letters have been received from League members since the Amateur Radio Parity Act of 2015 grassroots campaign began in March.
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07/27/2015 | Participants at International Gatherings to Speak with ISS via Amateur Radio
Participants at two international youth gatherings will have opportunities this week to speak via Amateur Radio with a member of the International Space Station crew.
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07/25/2015 | AMSAT-NA, AMSAT-DL, and Virginia Tech Announce Potential Phase 3E Opportunity
Virginia Tech has approached the US Government to fly the Phase 3E space frame into high-Earth orbit (HEO) in order to support scientific payloads as well as serve as an Amateur Radio satellite.
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07/24/2015 | Past IARU Region 3 Director, WARC-79 Delegate Fred Johnson, ZL2AMJ, SK
Former International Amateur Radio Union (IARU) Region 3 Director J. F. C. “Fred” Johnson, ZL2AMJ, died on July 23.
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07/24/2015 | SEA-PAC Pioneer Al Berg, W7SIC, SK
One of the founding chairmen of SEA-PAC, Allan J. “Al” Berg, W7SIC, of Hillsboro, Oregon, died on July 22.
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07/24/2015 | Researchers Decode CASSIOPE Satellite Field Day Fly-Over Experiment Results
The University of Calgary’s “Enhanced Polar Outflow Probe (ePOP) Radio Receiver Instrument (RRI)” on the CASSIOPE satellite was able to detect several ARRL Field Day stations on June 28.
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07/24/2015 | FCC Shows No Mercy, Sustains $22,000 Fine for Egregious On-Air Behavior by Michigan Licensee
The FCC has dropped the other shoe — hard — in the case of Michael Guernsey, KZ8O (ex-ND8V), of Parchment, Michigan, imposing the full $22,000 fine it had proposed in 2014.
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07/24/2015 | The K7RA Solar Update
Sunspot numbers dipped significantly
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