ARRL

ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® Headquarters will be closed on Friday July 4, 2025, for the Independence Day holiday. There will be no W1AW bulletin or code practice transmissions on that day. ARRL Headquarters will reopen on Monday July 7, at 8 AM ET. We wish everyone a festive and safe holiday!

ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® will return Logbook of The World® (LoTW®) to service at 10:00 AM EDT on Wednesday, July 2, 2025.

We are happy to be bringing the upgraded LoTW servers online, as we know radio amateurs around the world rely on LoTW to receive QSLs and apply for awards. The improvements we made will make no change in the visual appearance of LoTW but will provide e...

Attention: Full ARRL members in the PACIFIC, ROCKY MOUNTAIN, SOUTHEASTERN, SOUTHWESTERN, and WEST GULF Divisions. You have the opportunity to choose a Director and Vice Director to represent you for 3-year terms beginning January 1, 2026.

ARRL is governed by its Board of Directors. A voting Director is chosen by ballot by the full (licensed) ARRL members in each of its 15 divisions. Vice Directo...

Solar activity has been at low levels for the past 48 hours, with
low-level C-class flares.
 
There was a narrow coronal mass ejection (CME), likely associated
with minor flaring from Regions AR4117 and AR4118 between 1439 UTC
and 1524 UTC on June 24. Initial modeling indicated a miss, south
and behind Earth's orbit. However, it should be noted that analysis
of this event is low confidence given the a...

By: Bill Mader, K8TE, Section Manager of the ARRL New Mexico Section

One of the many ways to earn bonus points during ARRL Field Day is to have a Safety Officer on site who makes use of the Safety Officer Checklist [PDF]. Safety shouldn’t stop there! Many pictures of Field Day sites indicate that running that checklist alone is inadequate. Having been involved with safety professionally in the U...