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    The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the national association for amateur radio, connecting hams around the U.S. with news, information and resources.

    • Massachusetts ARES Prepares as a Now-Weakened Hurricane Earl Approaches

      Robert Macedo, KD1CY, ARES SKYWARN Coordinator and Eastern Massachusetts ARES Section Emergency Coordinator, provided this report on the afternoon of Friday, September 3:

      The following is a situation report from the Eastern Massachusetts ARRL Section on Hurricane Earl. The good news is that Earl has weakened to a Category-1 hurricane. The other good news is that its track remains on target with ...

    • New Interim Chief Takes Over Air Force MARS

       The Air Force Military Auxiliary Radio System (MARS) organization has a new “interim” Chief. Outgoing USAF MARS Chief Allen Eiermann, K3LSR, retired at the end of May and was replaced by TSgt Jason E. Sandifer. Sandifer is a systems manager stationed at the Air Force Network Integration Center (AFNIC) at Scott AFB, Illinois. AFNIC is the headquarters of the national Air Force MARS organization...

    • The K7RA Solar Update

      Over this past week, four new sunspot groups appeared. Group 1101 was already in place since August 24, and 1102 emerged on August 29. On September 1, two new sunspot groups -- 1103 and 1104 -- appeared, and on September 2, sunspot group 1105 arrived. Through August 26-September 2, the daily sunspot numbers were 23, 11, 11, 25, 28, 27, 51 and 52 and these same eight days saw the relative total ...

    • Surfin’: Hurricane Hamming

      By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOU
      Contributing Editor

      This week, Surfin’ makes plans for emergency communications of the hurricane variety.  

      As I write this, Connecticut and the Northeast are looking down the barrel of Hurricane Earl. It looks like my neck of the woods will only receive a glancing, but powerful blow, but points south and east of us will not be so lucky.

      Having lived through direct hits fro...

    2010 contest Calendar
    Date(s)     Contest    Links
    January    1 Straight Key Night Rules

       2 - 3 ARRL RTTY Round-Up Rules

       3 Kids Day Kids Day Page
    Rules

       23 - 25 ARRL January VHF Sweepstakes Rules

    February    20 - 21 ARRL International DX Contest (CW) Rules

    March    6 - 7 International DX Contest – Phone Rules

    June    12 - 14 ARRL June VHF QSO Party

       19 Kids Day Kids Day Page
    Rules

       26 ARRL Field Day

    July    10 - 11 IARU HF World Championships

    August    7 - 8 ARRL UHF Contest

       21 - 22 ARRL 10 GHz and Up Contest

    September    11 - 13 ARRL September VHF QSO Party

       18 - 19 ARRL 10 GHz and Up Contest

    November    6 - 8 ARRL November Sweepstakes (CW)

       20 - 22 ARRL November Sweepstakes (Phone)

    December    3 - 5 ARRL 160 Meter Contest

       11 - 12 ARRL 10 Meter Contest
    Amateur Showcase
    LOGic ham radio software