ARRL

• Hamvention 2026 Friday -- Let the Fun Begin!

  Hamvention® 2026 in Xenia, Ohio, is officially under way, with large crowds filling the five exhibit halls, four forum rooms, and the giant flea market. Here’s a summary of Friday, May 15.

  In the ARRL Expo area, attendees interacted with program representatives and volunteer leadership officials, including ARRL CEO David Minster, NA2AA, and President Rick Roderick, K5UR. Emergency Communications...

• Hamvention 2026 Thursday -- Setup Day and Much More

  Hamvention® 2026 in Xenia, Ohio, officially begins on Friday morning, May 15. But several hundred hams arrived early to take part in pre-Hamvention activities. ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® was already on site at the Greene County Fairgrounds, exhibitors were busy setting up their booths. We snapped a few late afternoon photos of setup work at several booths, including Carlso...

• The ARRL Solar Update

  Solar activity was at low levels this past week with occasional
  B-class and isolated low-level C-class flares. The largest event of
  the period was a C1.4/Sf flare from Region 4429 on May 5.
  
  There are currently six numbered regions on the visible disk as 4434
  decayed to plage and Region 4428 rotated beyond the western limb as
  an E-type group. The remaining regions mostly showed signs of decay.
  Region...

• STEM On and Off the Air

  The Garden School Amateur Radio Club in Jackson Heights, New York, K2GSG, was started in September 2016 as a way to implement the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) standard at the school.

  Currently, the Club has 13 members ranging from 4th graders to 12th graders and is an Affiliated Club of ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio®.

  Well, last week they got a big su...

• Learn More About SDR

  The Boston Software Defined Radio User Group, SDR-Boston, is hosting the New England Workshop for Software Defined Radio 2026 (NEWSDR), June 4 - 5, at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in Worcester, Massachusetts.

  The primary goal of this workshop is to provide a forum that enables software defined radio (SDR) enthusiasts to get together, collaborate, and introduce SDR concepts to those inte...