...SIGNIFICANT WEATHER ADVISORY FOR WESTERN MACON COUNTY UNTIL 900 PM CDT... AT 810 PM CDT...NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE DOPPLER RADAR WAS TRACKING A STRONG THUNDERSTORM 10 MILES NORTHEAST OF BUCKLIN...OR 16 MILES NORTHEAST OF MARCELINE...MOVING SOUTH AT 10 MPH. WIND GUSTS UP TO 40 MPH ARE EXPECTED WITH THIS STORM...ALONG WITH […]

...THE FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING RIVER IN MISSOURI.. THE CUIVRE RIVER AT ...OLD MONROE .THIS FLOOD WARNING IS A RESULT OF BACK WATER FROM THE MISSISSIPPI RIVER... PRECAUTIONARY/PREPAREDNESS ACTIONS... THE NATIONAL WEATHER SERVICE WILL CONTINUE TO ISSUE FOLLOW UP STATEMENTS […]

...THE FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING STREAM... MISSOURI RIVER AT RULO AFFECTING HOLT AND RICHARDSON COUNTIES. ...THE FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING STREAM... MISSOURI RIVER AT NEBRASKA CITY AFFECTING FREMONT AND OTOE COUNTIES. MISSOURI RIVER AT BROWNVILLE AFFECTING ATCHISON AND NEMAHA COUNTIES. THE FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR […]

...THE FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING STREAMS... MISSOURI RIVER AT ST JOSEPH MISSOURI RIVER AT NAPOLEON MISSOURI RIVER AT WAVERLY MISSOURI RIVER AT MIAMI AFFECTING THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN KANSAS...DONIPHAN AND IN […]

...THE FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING STREAMS... MISSOURI RIVER AT ST JOSEPH MISSOURI RIVER AT NAPOLEON MISSOURI RIVER AT WAVERLY MISSOURI RIVER AT MIAMI AFFECTING THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN KANSAS...DONIPHAN AND IN […]

...THE FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING STREAMS... MISSOURI RIVER AT ST JOSEPH MISSOURI RIVER AT NAPOLEON MISSOURI RIVER AT WAVERLY MISSOURI RIVER AT MIAMI AFFECTING THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN KANSAS...DONIPHAN AND IN […]

...THE FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING STREAMS... MISSOURI RIVER AT ST JOSEPH MISSOURI RIVER AT NAPOLEON MISSOURI RIVER AT WAVERLY MISSOURI RIVER AT MIAMI AFFECTING THE FOLLOWING COUNTIES IN KANSAS...DONIPHAN AND IN […]

...HEAT INDEX VALUES 100 TO 105 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON... THE HEAT INDEX WILL APPROACH 105 DEGREES THIS AFTERNOON ACROSS A GOOD PORTION OF OUR AREA. EVEN THOUGH TEMPERATURES ARE ONLY THE IN THE UPPER 80S TO LOWER 90S...THE RICH MOISTURE CONTENT IN THE ATMOSPHERE IS CAUSING THE HEAT INDEX VALUES TO RISE TO OVER 100 DEGREES. […]

...THE FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING RIVER IN ILLINOIS AND MISSOURI... MISSISSIPPI RIVER AT CANTON LD QUINCY QUINCY LD 21 HANNIBAL SAVERTON LD 22 […]

...THE FLOOD WARNING CONTINUES FOR THE FOLLOWING RIVER IN ILLINOIS AND MISSOURI... MISSISSIPPI RIVER AT CANTON LD QUINCY QUINCY LD 21 HANNIBAL SAVERTON LD 22 […]

VHF/UHF weak-signal operators across North America are making the final tests on their stations in preparation for the ARRL UHF Contest, coming up the weekend of August 7-8. Most VHF+ weak-signal operation takes place on the two lowest bands of the VHF spectrum -- 6 and 2 meters; however, there is a lot of activity that takes place above 144 MHz in the UHF p […]

While the Federal Register may be the ultimate record of the business of the USA’s Executive Branch, it can be a difficult document to navigate. The Register publishes approximately 80,000 pages of documents each year in the form of Notices, Proposed Rules, Rules and Official Documents; this is where all new and amended rules to Part 97, the Amateur Radio Se […]

Beginning July 28, those who have dealings with the FCC will have a new tool that the FCC claims will put them “within one click of all the information they want” from the Commission: a new “easy-to-use” Consumer Help Center.“Our new Consumer Help Center makes it easy for consumers to learn about our work and take action,” said FCC Chief of the Consumer and […]

After a higher than expected run on pins for Field Day this year, the ARRL has ordered more and expects them to arrive next month. “The pins were in stock until just before Field Day, but due to some exceptionally high interest, we were unable to fulfill a few final orders,” said ARRL Product Marketing Specialist Jackie Ferreira, KB1PWB. “We have ordered mor […]

By Gary Hoffman, KB0HARRL Contributing EditorMy efforts to set up an APRS station (Automatic Packet Reporting System) had come to a standstill. I had installed a program called UI-View32. It was pretty slick, with volumes of data in its Help file, but there were still plenty of parts of it that I didn’t understand. It was time to find an Elmer.I won’t go int […]

After review of eligibility by the ARRL Ethics and Elections Committee, President Kay Craigie, N3KN, has appointed John Robert Stratton, KE5ISX, of Austin Texas, to serve as Vice Director of the ARRL’s West Gulf Division for the remainder of the current term that expires January 1, 2011. Stratton, an attorney, fills the vacancy created when John Thomason, WB […]

This free operating system provides your PC with all of the usual features, including lots of ham radio applications.Read More […]

By Joe Moell, K0OV, Contributing EditorARRL Amateur Radio Direction Finding Coordinatork0ov@homingin.comNo shack potatoes here! These radio-orienteering enthusiasts took to the beautiful woods of the Buckeye State in pursuit of transmitters and medals.They came from 15 states and four foreign countries. In their suitcases were radio sets, antennas, sun block […]

Saying that only the Federal Communications Commission is empowered to regulate radio frequency interference (RFI), the ARRL has notified Midwest City, Oklahoma, that its local ordinance 27-3(9), seeking to regulate radio transmissions and RFI, is “null and void.” Midwest City is in the Oklahoma City metropolitan area.Midwest City’s Ordinance 27-3(9) reads: […]

Sunspot activity increased recently, although it is foolish to call this a trend, since solar activity has great variability. Sunspot group 1087 was visible for 13 days over July 9-21. In millionths of a solar hemisphere, its size was 30, 100, 120, 130, 70, 100, 60, 50, 20, 10, 10, 10 and 10. On July 19, new sunspot group 1089 appeared over the eastern horiz […]