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• New Book Release: Salty Walt’s Portable Antenna Sketchbook April 25, 2025
• ARRL Teachers Institute Application Deadline April 30 April 25, 2025
  Applicants for the summer 2025 sessions of the ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology must apply by April 30 to be considered. The application process is straightforward. Interested educators can find the web form at www.arrl.org/ti. ARRL covers all the costs of the TI, including travel, but there is a $100 application fee if the […]
• ARRL Exhibits and Forums Planned for 2025 Dayton Hamvention April 25, 2025
• The ARRL Solar Report April 25, 2025
  Solar activity has been at low levels with only minor C-classflaring through April 24, 2025, and is expected to be moderate witha chance of M-class flares (R1-R2, Minor-Moderate) through April 26.No Earth-directed Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) have been observed.A southwest CME was observed on April 23 and is considered to befar-side due to the lack […]
• Amateur Radio Helps 2025 Boston Marathon April 25, 2025
  Over 280 amateur radio operators volunteered during the 129th running of the Boston Marathon on April 21, 2025. Operators were working at virtually every location connected with the race, including the starting line, the entire course, the finish line, transportation, and various operations centers including the Massachusetts Emergency Management Agency (MEMA), the State EOC Unified Command […]
• W1AW Facility Closed to Visitors April 28-30 for Maintenance April 24, 2025
• ARRL Ham Radio Open House Events Making Headlines April 21, 2025
• The ARRL Solar Report April 18, 2025
  Spaceweather.com reports a Cannibal Coronal Mass Ejection on April 15 sparked geomagnetic storms.  On April 16, the storm became severe (G4) with Northern Lights sighted as far south as France.  The storm is subsiding now to a category G1/G2, which could still produce high-latitude auroras. Although Regions AR4062 and AR4064 have been relatively quiet they […]
• Former ARRL Vice Director Wayne Overbeck, N6NB, SK April 18, 2025
  Former ARRL Vice Director and Contest Advisory Committee Chairman Wayne Overbeck, N6NB, passed away Saturday April 12, 2025. He was 82 years old. Overbeck held an Amateur Extra-class license and was active in amateur radio for over 68 years. He served four terms as an elected ARRL Vice Director, from 1984 to 1993, and was […]
• Paul “Tad” Cook, K7RA, SK April 18, 2025
  Paul “Tad” Cook, K7RA, passed away on April 13, 2025. For 36 years, Cook wrote the weekly W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin and the K7RA Solar Update for the ARRL Letter. He retired in January 2025, citing a recent ALS diagnosis and on March 8, Cook received the ARRL President’s Award presented to him by ARRL Northwestern […]
• World Amateur Radio Day – International Amateur Radio Union Formed 100 Years Ago April 17, 2025
  April 18th is honored as World Amateur Radio Day, when we celebrate the founding of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU). The organization was born out of a meeting in Paris on April 17, 1925. ARRL took a leadership role in its founding, with ARRL Founder Hiram Percy Maxim, then 1AW, serving as the first […]
• ARRL Videos Document Next Generation DXing Program at International DX Convention April 17, 2025
• ARRL Files Comments Responding to FCC Request for Input April 14, 2025
  ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® filed comments [PDF] with the Federal Communications Commission in response to its request for public input on alleviating unnecessary regulatory burdens by deleting or modifying rules, In the Matter of Delete, Delete, Delete. Implementing ARRL’s  suggestions would promote and protect the art, science, and enjoyment of amateur radio, […]
• The ARRL Solar Report April 11, 2025
  Due to most of the regions on the solar disk being fairly simple intheir magnetic complexity, solar activity is expected to remain atlow levels with a chance for M-class flares (R1 to R2, or Minor toModerate).Solar wind parameters are expected to trend further towards nominallevels as the Coronal Hole High-Speed Stream effects continue towane.Additional enhancements […]
• Effort to Save Marconi Towers in Canada – Public Invited to Vote on Project April 10, 2025
  There’s an effort underway to save some of Marconi’s original towers, and an online poll is open for people to vote on it being a restoration project through the “Next Great Save” project from the National Trust for Canada.Some of Marconi’s first messages were received and transmitted using the Battle Harbour Marconi Towers, thought to […]