Webinar: Hams, Emergencies and the News

W8CMK – Webinar: Hams, Emergencies and the News ARES and emergency groups have had their hands full in the past months. Time and again Amateur Radio was called upon to provide emergency communications. In some places the hams made the news and were highly praised. In other places the community never knew they were there…

US Amateurs Now 700,000 Strong!

As the third quarter of 2011 came to a close, ARRL VEC Manager Maria Somma, AB1FM, began calculating the number of licensed Amateur Radio operators in the US, as well as the number of new licensees. “At the end of September, I saw that the number of hams in the US was high,” she said.…