Next meeting : December 8th.

...SNOW TO GRADUALLY DIMINISH LATE THIS AFTERNOON... SNOW WILL PERSIST OVER THE NEXT FEW HOURS...BUT SHIFT EAST WITH TIME DURING THE REMAINDER OF THE AFTERNOON. THE HEAVIEST POCKETS OF SNOW...WHICH WILL REDUCE THE VISIBILITY TO ONE HALF MILE OR LESS AND BRING RATES OF ONE IN AN HOUR...WILL PIVOT FROM AROUND INTERSTATE 69 SOUTHEAST THROUGH MUCH OF THE METRO DETROIT AREA.

By Rod Stafford, W6ROD
IARU Secretary

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) 2012 World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-12) began January 23 in Geneva, Switzerland. This is the “big show” for spectrum allocation matters and a very important meeting if you are an Amateur Radio operator anywhere in the world. Every 4 or 5 years a WRC takes place. The last one was in 2007. Approximately ...

According to Colin Thomas G3PSM, CEPT Coordinator for Agenda Item 1.23, WRC-12 delegates are progressing with what he calls a “compromise proposal” for an MF secondary allocation to the Amateur Radio Service. Agenda Item 1.23 calls for WRC-12 delegations to consider an allocation of about 15 kHz in parts of the band 415-526.5 kHz to the Amateur Service on a secondary basis, taking into account ...

By Sterling Coffey, N0SSC
ARRL Youth Editor
n0scc@arrl.net

After celebrating the New Year and holiday festivities with some well-deserved rest -- and lots of time spent on the air -- I look back at the break, and like all of you in school, I always think it was too short. During my free time, I finished several projects and started new ones, only to have to put them to the side to focus on school ...

The freak snow storm in late October wreaked havoc on the ARRL HQ antenna farm. According to W1AW Station Manager Joe Carcia, NJ1Q, both of W1AW’s M-Squared 40 meter Yagis were severely damaged, as was the 80 meter cage antenna, and an element on the north tower’s 10 meter Yagi was twisted vertically. The antennas atop the ARRL Headquarters building for W1HQ, the station for the Laird Campbell ...