University of Scranton professor receives $5.5 million NASA grant to study impact of space weather - Nathaniel Frissell, W2NAF, associate professor of physics and engineering, will serve as the principal investigator of the project, titled “Discovering the SPARC: Space Physics Through Amateur Radio Connections.”
Zombie Shuffle QRP Event - an annual afternoon/evening event for QRPers to get on the air, have some fun, and rack up a really big score in spite of what your CW or operating skills may be. Takes place the Friday nearest Halloween each year and to avoid the ARRL CW Sweepstakes contest.
51st Anniversary, Sinking of the SS Edmund Fitzgerald - Special Event: Nov 1 to Nov 14, 0000Z-2359Z, W8F, Livonia, MI. Livonia Amateur Radio Club. 14.260 7.260 7.050 14.050. Certificate. Electronic Only See QRZ page, 145.350 MHz, Livonia, MI 48151.
Stars and Stripes reports - “Russia building powerful new radar as surveillance contest with NATO heats up”.
The 102nd ARRL Handbook Now Available - first published in 1926, The ARRL Handbook has helped generations of radio amateurs turn curiosity into knowledge, ideas into circuits, and experiments into new discoveries.
Watching, Reading...
Steve Narducci W9SN was permitted to make a video of his visit to the new home of Hy-Gain/Cushcraft/Ameritron/Mirage in Linton, Indiana (via YouTube).
Analyze Your Radio with an SDR and Audio Editing Software - join ARRL Director for Learning and Education Wayne Greene, KB4DSF, when he explores an inexpensive and practical way to evaluate the performance of your handheld (HT) radio. Using a low-cost Software Defined Radio (SDR) dongle, free SDR software, and free audio-editing software (via ARRL video).
The 44Net Origin Story - a look back at the beginnings of 44Net, where pioneers share their contributions to putting the Internet over the airwaves. This work helped shape the Internet as we know it today (via YouTube).
Why the U.S. Navy Brought Morse Code Back - the U.S. Navy revived Morse code training in 2022 and what it means in 2026: contested environments, ham radio parallels and learning CW (via web).
The Midnight Library - somewhere beyond the edge of the universe there is a library that contains an infinite number of books, each one the story of another reality. One tells the story of your life as it is, along with another book for the other life you could have lived if you had made a different choice at any point in your life (via book).
