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Open letter to UN Secretary-General António Guterres about 4U1UN: A most wanted entity’s history
4U1UN should be a beacon again.
K3LOE

Phone contest phonetics
Inventing cute phonetics may be amusing, just don't try it in a contest if you want a good rate.
Pattern and Match

HamXposition Highlights
Saturday was the big day. HamXposition was buzzing with energy, and I was impressed by the number of exhibitors.
QRPer

18 clubs to activate Erie Canal for Parks on the Air
Hams will activate the Erie Canal September 16-25 to celebrate the canal's 200th anniversary.
Amateur Radio Daily

Satellites without the dish
An 8 turn helix that can be paired with a ground plane to make something that should have useful gain for receiving the geostationary Inmarsat signals with sufficient SNR.
ElMarko says things

ARRL Lab helps Radio Amateurs avoid interfering with US Space Force radar
The ARRL Lab supports the US Space Force’s Phased Array Warning System (PAVE PAWS) early warning radar installations which scan the skies for incoming missiles and space junk.
ARRL

Optimizing VLF antennas
Thanks to software-defined radio, you no longer need huge coils. However, you still need a suitable antenna.
Hackaday

IC-7300MK2: Why a 0.7 A receive draw actually matters off-grid
Its reduced current draw finally makes this legendary HF rig off-grid friendly.
Off Grid Ham

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Video

QRP Parks On The Air with the Icom IC-705 + POTA Performer
At Maumee Bay State Park (US-1976), I run a low power POTA activation with my Icom IC-705 and my homemade antenna designed by KJ6ER: the POTA PERformer.
Critical Frequency

Ham Radio without the FCC?
What really happens when you push the FCC too far?
Ham Radio Gizmos

Create keyboard-to-keyboard radio chat rooms
AX.25 radio networking is underutilized in the information age. There's no reason we can't create texting/chatroom environments just like we have on our phones and PC's.
KM6LYW

VK3SRC and VK3CKY talking on FreeDV RADEV1
A few minutes of a typical FreeDV RADEV1 contact on 40m.
Peter Marks