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    Plan Your Hamvention With ARRL App

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    Clock is Ticking Down to 2025 Dayton Hamvention

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    Heritage CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame Inductees Named

    The Heritage CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame, created by longtime amateur radio publisher Richard Ross, K2MGA (SK), will continue to honor amateur radio operators on a new section of the Hamgallery.com website. CQ magazine ceased publication in October 2023. Ross died on April 27, 2024, and the...
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    The ARRL Solar Report

    On May 2, Spaceweather.com reported: "Astronomers are monitoring a very large sunspot now turning toward Earth. Sunspot AR4079 stretches more than 140,000 km from end to end and has two dark cores each large enough to swallow Earth. Moreover, it is surrounded by a ring of Ellerman Bombs...
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    630-Meter Band Worked All States Awards Issued

    by Sierra Harrop, W5DX Eric Tichansky, NO3M, of Saegertown, Pennsylvania, has been issued the first Worked All States award from ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® for the 630-meter band. He picked up the award at ARRL Headquarters in Newington, Connecticut, on April 21, 2025...
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    ARRL Announces Change in Atlantic Division Leadership

    Martin J. “Marty” Pittinger, KB3MXM, has resigned as Vice Director of the ARRL Atlantic Division, effective April 28, 2025. Pittinger had been Vice Director since January 2023, when he was appointed to the role. He was elected in November 2023 to a three-year term that began January 1, 2024...
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    Amateur Radio Helps 2025 Boston Marathon

    Over 280 amateur radio operators volunteered during the 129th running of the Boston Marathon on April 21, 2025. Operators were working at virtually every location connected with the race, including the starting line, the entire course, the finish line, transportation, and various operations...
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    The ARRL Solar Report

    Solar activity has been at low levels with only minor C-class flaring through April 24, 2025, and is expected to be moderate with a chance of M-class flares (R1-R2, Minor-Moderate) through April 26. No Earth-directed Coronal Mass Ejections (CMEs) have been observed. A southwest CME was observed...
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    ARRL Exhibits and Forums Planned for 2025 Dayton Hamvention

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    ARRL Teachers Institute Application Deadline April 30

    Applicants for the summer 2025 sessions of the ARRL Teachers Institute on Wireless Technology must apply by April 30 to be considered. The application process is straightforward. Interested educators can find the web form at www.arrl.org/ti. ARRL covers all the costs of the TI, including travel...
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    New Book Release: Salty Walt’s Portable Antenna Sketchbook

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    W1AW Facility Closed to Visitors April 28-30 for Maintenance

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    ARRL Ham Radio Open House Events Making Headlines

    ARRL Ham Radio Open House events are garnering press around the country. In Yaphank, New York, on Long Island, an event held by the Suffolk County Radio Club was featured in Newsday (paywall). Reporter Joe Werkmeister profiled the club’s event that drew out a crowd of visitors. ARRL Hudson...
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    Paul “Tad” Cook, K7RA, SK

    Paul “Tad” Cook, K7RA, passed away on April 13, 2025. For 36 years, Cook wrote the weekly W1AW Propagation Forecast Bulletin and the K7RA Solar Update for the ARRL Letter. He retired in January 2025, citing a recent ALS diagnosis and on March 8, Cook received the ARRL President’s Award...
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    Former ARRL Vice Director Wayne Overbeck, N6NB, SK

    Former ARRL Vice Director and Contest Advisory Committee Chairman Wayne Overbeck, N6NB, passed away Saturday April 12, 2025. He was 82 years old. Overbeck held an Amateur Extra-class license and was active in amateur radio for over 68 years. He served four terms as an elected ARRL Vice Director...
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    The ARRL Solar Report

    Spaceweather.com reports a Cannibal Coronal Mass Ejection on April 15 sparked geomagnetic storms. On April 16, the storm became severe (G4) with Northern Lights sighted as far south as France. The storm is subsiding now to a category G1/G2, which could still produce high-latitude auroras...
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    ARRL Videos Document Next Generation DXing Program at International DX Convention

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    World Amateur Radio Day – International Amateur Radio Union Formed 100 Years Ago

    April 18th is honored as World Amateur Radio Day, when we celebrate the founding of the International Amateur Radio Union (IARU). The organization was born out of a meeting in Paris on April 17, 1925. ARRL took a leadership role in its founding, with ARRL Founder Hiram Percy Maxim, then 1AW...
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    ARRL Files Comments Responding to FCC Request for Input

    ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® filed comments [PDF] with the Federal Communications Commission in response to its request for public input on alleviating unnecessary regulatory burdens by deleting or modifying rules, In the Matter of Delete, Delete, Delete. Implementing ARRL’s...
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    The ARRL Solar Report

    Due to most of the regions on the solar disk being fairly simple in their magnetic complexity, solar activity is expected to remain at low levels with a chance for M-class flares (R1 to R2, or Minor to Moderate). Solar wind parameters are expected to trend further towards nominal levels as the...
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