FCC Reduces Vanity Call Fees

From the ARRL Letter, 9/7/07:The FCC will reduce
the regulatory fee to obtain or renew an Amateur
Radio vanity call sign by more than 40 percent starting
September 17. In a Report & Order (R&O)
released August 6, “Assessment and Collection of
Regulatory Fees for Fiscal Year 2007,” in MD
Docket 07-81, the Commission will cut the fee
from its current $20.80 [...]

Amateur Radio – Art Or Science ? (Part Three)

The Art of Amateur Radio by Ron Hashiro, AH6RH and the (Emergency Amateur Radio Club) Wireless Dispatch.
This is the last of three articles on the art of amateur radio. In the first article, we took a look at the essence of radio waves. Last month, we looked at [...]

Amateur Radio Art Or Science ? (Part Two)

The Art of Amateur Radio by Ron Hashiro, AH6RH and the (Emergency Amateur Radio Club) Wireless Dispatch.
Last month, we took a look at the key element of radio waves…that the major component of a radio wave is really a spreading, magnetic wave and while it may diminish over [...]

Amateur Radio – Art Or Science? (Part One)

The Art of Amateur Radio by Ron Hashiro, AH6RH and the (Emergency Amateur Radio Club) Wireless Dispatch.

Amateur radio is a pastime that is based on science. It is also based on art.
Hard science such as physics, meteorology and chemistry gives us [...]