ARRL News
ARRL Straight Key Night: January 1, 2025
ARRL Straight Key Night will be January 1, 2025, from 0000 UTC through 2359 UTC. This 24-hour event is not a contest but rather a day dedicated to celebrating our CW heritage.
articipants are encouraged to get on the air and simply make enjoyable, conversational CW QSOs. The use of straight keys or bugs to send CW is preferred. There are no points scored and all who participate are winners. All ...
ARRL Kids Day - January 4, 2025
ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® Kids Day runs January 4, 2025 from 1800 UTC - 2359 UTC. Operate as much or as little as you like.
The event is designed to give on-the-air experience to young people, to foster interest in getting a license of their own, and give older hams a chance to share their stations and love for amateur radio with their children. You can share the excitemen...
Call for Nominations: ARRL Awards Recognize Excellence in Ham Radio
ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® seeks nominations for awards.
It probably isn’t hard to think of someone you know in the hobby who goes above and beyond in service to amateur radio, their club, their fellow hams, or their community. Volunteers are the very core of the Amateur Radio Service, and that dedication is what carries the ARRL Field Organization. Excellence in on-air ope...
Experimental Station to Commemorate Fessenden Transmission December 24
Brian Justin, Jr., WA1ZMS, of Forest, Virginia, will operate experimental station WI2XLQ on 486-kHz AM for the Reginald Fessenden commemorative transmission starting approximately at 22:00 UTC on December 24, 2024.
Transmissions will last for at least 24 hours. A repeat transmission will take place on December 31, also starting approximately 22:00 UTC and running for 24 hours. All transmissions ...
ARRL Closing Early Dec. 24, and Closed Christmas Day Dec. 25
ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® will close our headquarters early at 12 PM Eastern Standard Time (1700 UTC) on Tuesday, December 24, 2024, and will be closed all day on Wednesday, December 25 for Christmas.
The ARRL Headquarters lobby and store, as well as W1AW, will be open to visitors from 8 AM to 12 PM EST on Tuesday, December 24. There will be no W1AW bulletins, code practi...
The K7RA Solar Update
Excellent HF conditions greeted hams in the ARRL 10-Meter contest
last weekend. Recent indicators show a sudden shift to two digit
daily sunspot numbers from three, and although there is nothing
significant about 100, it makes one notice.
All daily sunspot numbers this week were 97 or less.
Perhaps this indicates a move off of solar maximum, or to a future
with a second maximum.
Solar activity was way...