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Radio Club Petitions FCC To Fix Call Area Confusion

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The Sundance Mountain Radio Association recently filed a Petition for Rulemaking asking the FCC to reestablish consistency between the call area indicated by an amateur radio callsign and its actual physical location. The current rules allow an amateur radio licensee to retain their current callsign when moving to a new call area and to operate … Read more

FCC Considers Changes to Amateur Radio Licensing

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The FCC has invited public comments on two proposals to change the licensing requirements for amateur radio operators. Both of these proposals are aimed at attracting and retaining new amateur radio licensees. Tyro The first one is the “Tyro” license proposal from Gary/AD0WU that creates a new license class with minimal licensing requirements and operating … Read more

We’ve Got Some Explaining to Do

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There was a fun interaction on twitter the other day about how we represent amateur radio to the general public. It started with this tweet from @FaradayRF: This refers to an article in the Las Vegas Review-Journal newspaper where the author decided to use the theme of “ham radio is retro” to tell the story … Read more

Ten Year Trends in US Ham Licenses

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In November 2005, I took a look at some statistics on FCC amateur radio licenses. At that time, I compared the number of ham licenses to such things as the US population, number of cell phones in use and the number of birdwatchers in the US. Interesting stuff. Ten years later, we can take a … Read more

This Spewed Out of the Internet #31

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This is another update on important stuff spewing forth from the interwebz. It has been a while since I’ve done this, so we’ve got some catching up to do. The KØNR Radio Site has expanded to Facebook. “Like” us there. Check out the statewide email list available to Colorado radio amateurs. Join us there to … Read more