Essex CW Amateur Radio Club

Want to learn or teach CW? The Essex CW Amateur Radio Club is a new club for anyone with a passion for Morse Code. Although the founders were from Essex, England, members are welcome from anywhere in the UK or abroad. Essex CW ARC is looking to organise a whole range of CW activities including contest participation e.g. CW NFD, demonstrations at special events, talks and promotion of CW at local radio clubs. The club's callsign is G1FCW and they meet on-air (using CW of course!) on ...

‘Celebrate Scouting’ Stamp Unveiled

By The USPS, from Scouting News On November 12, 2009, The U.S. Postal Service gave scouting ‘a stamp of approval’ to honor 100 years of the U.S. scouting movement. The Celebrate Scouting stamp, which will be sold in the summer of 2010, coincides with the Boy Scouts of America’s 100th anniversary. The new stamp design was unveiled Thursday during an event at the Smithsonian National Postal Museum. The design, created by illustrator Craig Frazier of Mill Valley, CA, depicts the spirit an...

BSA Launches 100th Year with Scouting Experience of a Lifetime

By The Boy Scouts of America, from Scouting News On Jan. 1, 2010, a new century begins for the Boy Scouts of America, and with it comes an invitation to the nation to experience Scouting like never before. Kicking off the celebration is the BSA’s participation in the Tournament of Roses Parade, with a float entitled: “Celebrating the Adventure, Continuing the Journey.” “This is an incredibly exciting and important time for our organization,” said Chief Scout Executive Bob Mazzuca. “The met...

Hams play key role in major East Coast winter blast

By Marc Stern, from the Examiner Even as the snow continues to fall outside, right now, a group of hearty souls from the Maritime Provinces of Canada to New England and as far south as the mid-Atlantic, are still manning their radio operation positions, constantly reporting on changing conditions and updating snow depths. The folks are Amateur Radio operators whose primary motivation is public service. They want to be where the action is and their primary motivation is one of the tenets of t...

Historic Trivia: The Last Tech Plus

By James Miccolis, N2EY, from eHam It's a trivial thing, yet historic. We're about to see a US amateur radio license class disappear, an event which has only occurred one other time since 1951, when the Conditional went away in the 1970s. The Technician class license was created in 1951 as a special-purpose amateur-experimenter's license for those only interested in "the ultra-highs". Over time and many rules changes its privileges and test requirements were changed, until by the 1980s the...

ARRL Atlantic Division to Host Webinar

From The ARRL Periodically, the ARRL’s Atlantic Division hosts a “webinar” -- an interactive Web-based seminar, designed to facilitate communication between a small number of presenters and a large remote audience using the Internet. On Wednesday, January 6 at 9 PM EST, ARRL General Counsel Chris Imlay, W3KD, along with attorneys Bob Famiglio, K3RF, and Mike Lazaroff, K3AIR, will present a webinar for Amateur Radio club officers or prospective club officers entitled Presentation on Legal Issu...

Merry Christmas!

Hey, everyone! On behalf of The Beaver Valley Amateur Radio Association, I would like to wish you all a very Merry Christmas! Have a safe and happy Christmas, and enjoy the holiday! While you celebrate today, gathering together with your friends and family, think of the true meaning of this holiday, and why it is called Christmas. Merry Christmas, everyone! Grant, KB3QFQ Website Coordinator, W3SGJ.org

Now You Know! Santa’s a Ham Radio Operator!

By ARRL News Editor S. Khrystyne Keane, K1SFA, from eHam For 37 years, Mickey Hicks, WO6T, played Santa Claus to hundreds of children. These children never sat on Santa's lap to tell him that they had been good boys and girls and what they wanted for Christmas. They did it in a much more simple way -- they picked up a microphone and told Santa on the air. Each year, Hicks, a ham for almost 50 years and a long-time Amateur Radio instructor, would get on the air for 10 days each December as W6S...

Amateur Radio Today

Check out the video below, titled Ham Radio Today, hosted by the late amateur radio operator and former CBS News host Walter Cronkite, KB2GSD. Some of the video highlights include: Ham radio's response on September 11, 2001 Ham radio's part in helping various agencies respond to wildfires in the Western US during 2002 Ham radio-in-space educational initiatives Enjoy!

‘Koala Talkers’ dig ham radio at DeLand school

By Linda Trimble, from News-JournalOnline.com DELAND, FL -- Five-year-old Samara Cortez is still learning to spell her last name and now she's learning to tap it out using the di-dah-dit sounds of Morse Code. This week, the kindergartener at Starke Elementary in DeLand also had the chance to talk about Christmas plans and pets with a Horizon Elementary student in Port Orange, using amateur radio. Samara is one of the "Koala Talkers," named for Starke's school mascot, who are learning ab...