News and advocacy
What the Alliance is doing — filings with the FCC, statements, new resources and the work behind them.
Club Week is a week away — put your club on the map
Club Week runs November 1 to 8. Signing up takes a minute, puts your club on the national participants list, and gives you a week of ready-made reasons to invite people in.
NARA at Hamvention for the first time
The Alliance took a stand at Hamvention in Xenia, Ohio in May 2026 — our first appearance at the largest amateur radio gathering in the United States.
NARA at Hamcation for the first time
The Alliance set up at Orlando Hamcation — our first time at the show — to meet operators, clubs and vendors face to face.
NARA attends one of the largest emcomm events in the Midwest
A week at the Central States Communications Association Red River Bootcamp in Oklahoma — 100+ students from 13 states, four days of COMT, COML, ITSL, INTD and AUXCOMM training and a full disaster exercise.
NARA attends Spark-Con and teams up with Mo-Kan
A great weekend in Sedalia at the ARRL® Midwest Division convention — and NARA is backing the Mo-Kan Regional Council of Amateur Radio Organizations.
NARA announces Club Week, our first annual on-air event
Not a contest: a relaxed nine days on the air for clubs, running November 1 to 8, built around conversation, QSL cards and bringing new operators on the air.
From around the hobby
Headlines from the amateur radio press. Each one opens on the publisher's own site. Read more of them.
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SHS POTA Rove: A Bug-Out Morning at Fort Dobbs State Historic Site (US-6839)
QRPer · Oct 28, 2026
by Thomas (K4SWL) On Tuesday, October 13, 2026, I needed to make a trip to Raleigh, North Carolina. That evening, I was giving a presentation to the North Carolina State University Amateur Radio Society. I had been invited by the Raleigh Knightlites, a QRP club based in Raleigh, to give a presentati…
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Making one’s own ICs? Tiny Tapeout
With Varying Frequency - Amateur Radio Ponderings · Oct 28, 2026
https://tinytapeout.com/ has caught my eye as a way to make a chip that one could include in a project build that might contain something interesting but difficult to reproduce without some insider knowledge or advanced skills. Now this project gives you a very low chip count, but expecting you coul…
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Radio Waves: Wartime Radio Hub Linked to Scharnhorst Up For Sale, Thousands protest in Prague, and CAB Joins Radio Ready Auto Coalition
The SWLing Post Blog · Oct 28, 2026
Radio Waves: Stories Making Waves in the World of Radio Welcome to the SWLing Post’s Radio Waves, a collection of links to interesting stories making waves in the world of radio. Enjoy! Many thanks to SWLing Post contributors David Iurescia and Dennis Dura for the following tips: Wartime radio hub l…
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Carlos’ Illustrated Radio Listening Report and Recording of Rádio 10 (October 28, 2026)
The SWLing Post Blog · Oct 28, 2026
Many thanks to SWLing Post contributor and noted political cartoonist Carlos Latuff, who shares the following illustrated radio listening report. Carlos notes: Rádio 10, Argentina: Milei took part in the operation to help Flávio Bolsonaro flee from Brazil to the U.S. Click here to view on YouTube.
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Surge in sales of domestic radios in the UK - Oct 2026
EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity · Oct 28, 2026
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SLAM Navigation For an Arduino Powered Car
Hackaday · Oct 28, 2026
There are plenty of “robot” projects out there that are really just a small remote control platform of some sort. We often like to think of robots of having some …read more
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TechTip #5: When is a balun not a balun?
Ham Radio Outside the Box · Oct 28, 2026
TechTips are occasional brief posts describing easy ways to do difficult things. What is a balun? The simplest definition is “a device for connecting a balanced line to an unbalanced line.” Many hams use the term generically to refer to the device that goes in between the antenna wire and the coax…
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Hacking a Marine Radio Dish
Hackaday · Oct 28, 2026
Having watched some fun videos on repurposed satellite dishes on YouTube, [Melan] wanted to get in on the action, managed to source an Intellian i4 — a dish built for …read more
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Tricking out a QMX+ some options
With Varying Frequency - Amateur Radio Ponderings · Oct 27, 2026
In addition to the TA7MNA battery/audio board, there are other options to trick out your QMX+ transceiver: Jon KC2STH has a bunch of upgrades, including the TA7MNA boards, at: https://www.cqhomesteadsupply.com/ 73 Steve K9ZW
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A New Ham’s Guide to Overcomplicating Everything – How Well Does My Station Work in the Field?
QRPer · Oct 27, 2026
by Josh Stringer (VE3YTX) Being a new ham, I’m constantly coming across technical questions that I don’t know how to answer. Recently I’ve started going to my local POTA park and activating using CW (I’m currently working on my first Kilo!). I’d set up my end-fed half-wave in a tree and start sendin…
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New Amateur Radio Products for October 2026 at DX Engineering
OnAllBands · Oct 27, 2026
Including four new DX Engineering branded products to upgrade your station *** OnAllBands has been working hard to cover all the new products now available at DX Engineering. The influx […] The post New Amateur Radio Products for October 2026 at DX Engineering appeared first on OnAllBands.
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New Propagation Software from 8P5AB in Barbados
EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity · Oct 27, 2026