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Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 440

Will RADE be the next SSB? RADE occupies half the bandwidth of a SSB signal and reportedly provides more natural-sounding speech. ARRL MacWinlink–A native macOS client for Winlink The goal of MacWinlink is to provide feature parity with…

Sep 26, 2026Read Brief →
Amateur Radio

Will RADE Be the Next SSB?

It’s been a half century since single sideband (SSB) supplanted amplitude modulation (AM) as the most popular voice mode on HF, due largely to its spectrum efficiency, occupying roughly half the bandwidth of an AM signal. Now, there’s…

Sep 25, 2026Read Brief →
Amateur Radio

FCC and HHS Initiate New Proceedings on RF Exposure

ARRL with ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® is following two new federal proceedings concerning radio frequency (RF) exposure. On September 17, 2026, the FCC and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) initiated parallel comment periods…

Sep 25, 2026Read Brief →
Amateur Radio

The ARRL Solar Update

Solar activity is likely to continue at low levels with isolated tooccasional C-class flare activity, along with a slight chance forR1-R2 (Minor-Moderate) M-class flare events, through September 25,according to NOAA’s Space Weather Prediction Center. The SWPC reportsthat nine…

Sep 25, 2026Read Brief →
Amateur Radio

West Over Lemhi Pass

We continued on our trip along the Lewis and Clark National Historical Trail, traveling across Montana and seeing many of the famous Lewis and Clark sites. We completed another 10 Parks On The Air activations along the way.…

Sep 24, 2026Read Brief →
Amateur Radio

LHS Episode #631: FreeDV and RADE with Mooneer Salem K6AQ

Hello and welcome back everyone!  You're joining us for episode 631 of Linux in the Ham Shack, the most terrific amateur radio podcast on the internet!  This week we're sharing news about what has been going on in…

Sep 21, 2026Read Brief →
Amateur Radio

How to fix your gadget Blogs I follow using HTML

 I have been asked by a few bloggers for the details on what I did to overcome the issue with the blogs I follow widget with Blogger blogs not working. So below are the details of that I…

Sep 21, 2026Read Brief →
Amateur Radio

ICQPodcast Episode 493 – What makes an Radio Antenna Fail?

In this episode, we join Martin Butler M1MRB, Chris Howard (M0TCH), Martin Rothwell (M0SGL), Frank Howell (K4FMH), Bill Barnes (WC3B) and Leslie Butterfields (G0CIB)  to discuss the latest Amateur / Ham Radio news. Colin Butler (M6BOY) rounds up…

Sep 20, 2026Read Brief →
Amateur Radio

AmateurLogic 221: The Night The Lights Went Out

AmateurLogic.TV Episode 221 is now available for download. The live stream is running and everything is going a planned. What’s the worst that could happen? Power Failure! Thanks to emergency preparedness, the show goes on. Watch our memories…

Sep 20, 2026Read Brief →
Amateur Radio

Amateur Radio Weekly – Issue 439

FCC ISM rules may shatter LoRa mesh communities How have Meshtastic and MeshCore gotten as far as they have without realizing that they may be in violation of regulations that date back to the 1980s? Hackaday Helioclock Review:…

Sep 19, 2026Read Brief →
Amateur Radio

The ARRL Solar Update

Solar flare activity is expected to remain at very low levels, with achance for isolated C-class flares through September 19, according toNOAA's Space Weather Prediction Center (SWPC). Solar wind speed wassteady near 530 km/s, and negative polarity CH…

Sep 18, 2026Read Brief →
Amateur Radio

Get Ready for Jamboree on the Air

This is relevant to amateur radio operators following equipment, regulation, operating events, RF technology, and developments across the hobby.

Sep 17, 2026Read Brief →