The Usenet newsgroup rec.radio.amateur.moderated will be five years old this month, having been created on February 22, 2007. Sometimes the most powerful motivator to succeed is being told that something can't be done. When a group of us decided to try to create a new Usenet group, we were to... full article...

AMSAT NEWS SERVICE ANS-043 ANS is a free, weekly, news and information service of AMSAT North America, The Radio Amateur Satellite Corporation. ANS reports on the activities of a worldwide group of Amateur Radio operators who share an active interest in designing, building, launching and communi... full article...

to all of our NATA friends! Just a friendly reminder to everyone that Amanda, K1DDN and Jeff, K0JSC will be appearing on HAM Nation this Tuesday at 9pm eastern time. We invite you all to join us in the fun! HAM Nation is hosted by Bob Heil and Gordon West. Bob and Gordon are g... full article...

Amateur Radio balloon starts record breaking flight An APRS amateur radio balloon KT5TK-11 has started out on its journey to break the long distance record. It was launched from Katy in Texas at about 2123 UT Saturday night on the start of its journey to Nanjing in China. Previous balloon flig... full article...

Welcome in European PSK Club: www.eu.srars.org or www.eupsk.com There are now about 18000 EPC members in 169 DXCC countries. Join EPC: http://www.eupsk.com/index.php?option=com_wrapper&view=wrapper&Itemid=5 More than 500 PSK free of charge awards, freeware soft: http://eu.srars.org/index.ph... full article...

AMSAT Fox-1 cubesat selected for NASA ELaNa launch collaboration Project ELaNa, NASA's 'Educational Launch of NanoSat' managed by the Launch Services Program at the Kennedy Space Center, announced on February 10 that the AMSAT Fox-1 cubesat has been selected to join the program. NASA will wor... full article...

Breaking News: Amateur radio has been granted an exemption to a proposed Illinois anti-distracted-driver law that could have outlawed all mobile operation by anyone in the state other than emergency services. See exact text of Amendment item 7 below. AMENDMENT TO HOUSE BILL 3972 (snip) ... full article...

HRD Software, LLC announces the release of Ham Radio Deluxe 5.1. This version incorporates fixes and some new features for DXers. "This is our first release since obtaining the source code about 90 days ago," said Mike Carper, WA9PIE. "My partner, Rick, W4PC has done an outstanding job at becomi... full article...