Category: News
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HF Propagation and Solar Indices
Mick Stutler W8BE gave an excellent program recently that walked us through the relationship between solar activity and HF propagation. He covered everything from how the Sun’s EUV radiation creates the ionosphere to the key indices every ham should know: SFI, SSN, Kp, and Ap. The presentation also breaks down the ionospheric D, E, and…
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ARRL Section Manager’s Listening Tour
The Club was honored to have Mike Aimone, WA8AHZ, as our presentation speaker on May 21, 2026. He is the new ARRL VA Section Manager, and he is visiting club’s to share what he’s learning about the current state of the hobby and hear what we think. He began by asking “What is the current…
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FCC Requires That FRN Contact Information Be Updated Within Ten Days of a Change
ARRL reports that the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) adopted changes to its rules to require that every holder of an FCC Registration Number (FRN) update their contact information in the CORES system (email and postal addresses) within ten business days of a change. Because every FCC licensee—including amateur radio operators—must have an FRN to file applications, this…
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Winter Field Day 2026
In January? Why…and how? Big thank you to John Foote W3GX and Gary Fortun K4GJF who organized this year’s Winter Field Day and made sure those who came had a great experience. Here is John W3GX’s report: Winter Field Day answers the question, why not get this kind of “hurry-up” radio experience more than once…
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VA QSO Party
The 2026 Virginia QSO Party will be held during the weekend of 21-22 March 2026. Saturday, 21 March, 1400 UTC – Sunday, 22 March, 0400 UTC and Sunday, 22 March, 1200 UTC – 2400 UTC. Read more about the QSO Party here
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HamClock End Of Life
HamClock has reached the end of life with the passing of the creator, Elwood Downey, WB0OEM. The back end server which provided the data for the HamClock will shut down in June of 2026. At that point all HamClock instances will be rendered inoperable. The news of this has prompted several amateur radio developers to…