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Ham community frets in “Delete, Delete” comments
Nearly 300 commenters have already flooded the FCC’s website since Chairman Brendan Carr asked for public input on ways to eliminate burdensome regulations.
RadioWorld

Announcing Zero Retries Digital Conference 2025
The presentations at ZRDC will showcase technological innovation in Amateur Radio such as are typically discussed in the Zero Retries newsletter.
Zero Retries

ISS SSTV April 11-16 – Humans in Space
April 12 is the International Day of Human Spaceflight so, what better theme for the April 11-16 Slow Scan TV transmissions.
AMSAT-UK

RAC will not attend Hamvention this year
At its meeting on March 27, 2025, the Board of Directors of Radio Amateurs of Canada voted unanimously to cancel RAC’s plans to operate a booth at Hamvention.
Radio Amateurs of Canada

In college, I founded an FM station. It’s 50 years later…
With a lot of help from some other students, a couple of faculty members and two administrators, we got this across the goal line right after I had graduated. Here’s how it went.
K4FMH

World Amateur Radio Day is April 18
It was on this day in 1925 that the International Amateur Radio Union was formed in Paris.
IARU

Ham radio turns 100 in South Africa
The South African Radio League (Sarl) wants to broaden its contribution to the growth of Amateur Radio in sub-Saharan Africa as the organisation celebrates its centenary next month.
TechCentral

What is IRLP?
Today, there are IRLP nodes all over the planet in frequent (sometimes constant) use.
The Random Wire

Bugs and the toupee fallacy
The Toupee Fallacy is a logical fallacy in which one thinks something is of poor quality because they only notice poor quality instances of it.
Radio Artisan

Video

Ham Radio space comms with the Arrow II antenna
Here I take my first venture into LEO satellites with the well known, Arrow II dual band hand held Yagi antenna.
Tech Minds

Proposed: Only 2 Amateur Radio license classes
A Response to the FCC and an invitation to discuss.
Ham Radio Perspectives

How to teach a one-day Tech class
This is a recording of a Zoom presentation to the Holmesburg Amateur Radio Club on Saturday, April 4, 2025.
KB6NU