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“ARDC has awarded a second grant to the Internet Archives Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications. The grant will allow Dlarc to continue curating and preserving historical content related to Ham Radio for an additional two years. The library includes a plethora of content from club newsletters to software to old printed call books that date back to the early 1900s.”

“The Brazilian regulator will no longer require Morse code for amateur licenses under the changes that have been under consideration since 2020. The regulator will update content in its exams for its three license classes. This is one of several changes contained in a resolution released on April 28th by ANATEL. The resolution also grants hams the ability to operate on citizens' band 11 meter frequencies.”

“I'd stand in front of the main beam, not for like an hour, but I'd stand in front of the main beam for like fifteen seconds and go zap me. It won't do anything. It won't it wouldn't do a thing to me. ... We happen to use frequencies that are so low, they're close to kind of RF. They're still microwave. They're considered microwave, but they're almost in the RF or radio frequency band of waves, and those waves pass harmlessly through us. Those are the kinda radio towers and stuff like that. The very, very long wavelength, very, very, low frequency waves.”

“ARDC has awarded a second grant to the Internet Archives Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications. The grant will allow Dlarc to continue curating and preserving historical content related to Ham Radio for an additional two years. The library includes a plethora of content from club newsletters to software to old printed call books that date back to the early 1900s.”

“Amazon kicks off its satellite constellation with a launch of its first group of satellites for the Kuiper network. Changes are announced in the ARRL Atlantic Division. The CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame announces its latest inductees. Spacex is thinking about entering a spectrum battle with another satellite operator.”

“The Commission will review an order this month that bans device testing conducted by labs that are, quote, owned or controlled directly by entities that pose national security risks. According to a statement by FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, he identified China as one example of such a country. He said it was important that US-based laboratories begin to take on the responsibility to certify such equipment.”

“And when we talk about what is Silicon Valley adding to the whole mix, if you will, you say, why is Silicon Valley, sort of better in some way? I lean into the design led thinking. And design led thinking is human factors, human thinking from the very beginning. That's what it means at its core. In a Raytheon, you're a services contractor. You have the military that decides what they want you to build. They put them all down in, like, a thousand requirements. They hand you a bunch of requirements, and you just build a system that meets the requirements.”

“The grant will allow Dlarc to continue curating and preserving historical content related to Ham Radio for an additional two years. The library includes a plethora of content from club newsletters to software to old printed call books that date back to the early 1900s. Dlarc has a want list. If you own copies of any of the publications sought by Dlarc, please consider donating them for preservation and future amateur radio enthusiasts.”

“As you know, Hamvention is the world's largest gathering of radio amateurs. It's held this year, May 16th through 18th in Zinnia, Ohio. There's a lot to do and see, so we want to help you use the ARRL Events App to make sure you don't miss a beat and you can plan out your visit ahead of time.”

“Hamvention is the world's largest gathering of radio amateurs. It's held this year, May 16th through 18th in Zinnia, Ohio. There's a lot to do and see, so we want to help you use the ARRL Events App to make sure you don't miss a beat and you can plan out your visit ahead of time. It includes Hamvention's full program; you can browse and schedule the forums, preview the extensive list of exhibitors, and find all the events that are happening.”

“It's this really remarkable semiconductor like silicon. Silicon is a semiconductor. It's a remarkable semiconductor that can amplify signals and withstand huge, huge power densities way, way, way better than traditional semiconductors or things that we've used before in the past. And that is really what's unlocked kind of a new class of directed energy, a new class of electronic warfare, a new class of a whole bunch of different systems that leverage that kind of technology, the gallium nitride technology.”

“The FCC plans to tighten its requirements for testing of electronic devices made in countries such as China before they can be sold to US consumers. The Commission will review an order this month that bans device testing conducted by labs that are, quote, owned or controlled directly by entities that pose national security risks.”

“It includes Hamvention's full program. You can browse and schedule the forums, preview the extensive list of exhibitors and find all the events that are happening. During the event, you can use the app features to follow along the hourly prize drawings populated by the Dayton Hamvention Prize Committee and browse building and site maps so you can find exactly what you're looking for in all of that complex.”

“The Brazilian regulator will no longer require Morse code for amateur licenses under the changes that have been under consideration since 2020. The resolution also grants hams the ability to operate on citizens' band 11 meter frequencies. They must identify with their call signs and are limited to 10 watts of power in AM and 25 watts of power in SSB.”

“The Brazilian regulator will no longer require Morse code for amateur licenses under the changes that have been under consideration since 2020. The regulator will update content in its exams for its three license classes. This is one of several changes contained in a resolution released on April 28th by ANATEL. The resolution also grants hams the ability to operate on citizens' band 11 meter frequencies.”

“The Brazilian regulator will no longer require Morse code for amateur licenses under the changes that have been under consideration since 2020. The regulator will update content in its exams for its three license classes. The resolution also grants hams the ability to operate on citizens' band 11 meter frequencies.”

“There's a lot to do and see, so we want to help you use the ARRL Events App to make sure you don't miss a beat and you can plan out your visit ahead of time. Hundreds of our fellow hams have already installed the app this week and are using it. It includes Hamvention's full program. You can browse and schedule the forums, preview the extensive list of exhibitors and find all the events that are happening.”

“ARDC has awarded a second grant to the Internet Archives Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications. The grant will allow DLARC to continue curating and preserving historical content related to ham radio for an additional two years. The library includes a plethora of content from club newsletters to software to old printed call books that date back to the early 1900s.”

“Brazil's telecommunications regulator, ANATEL, has two big changes planned for the nation's hams. The Brazilian regulator will no longer require Morse code for amateur licenses under the changes that have been under consideration since 2020. The regulator will update content in its exams for its three license classes.”

“And then it gives you a really nice defense against fiber optic fiber optic drones that you've seen these in The Ukraine now. These guys are about the drones that Tethered. Tethered. Yeah. They're dark we call them dark drones because it could be fiber optic. In the future, it could be, autonomous drones that just don't use any sort of RF or any sort of global positioning or any of that in order to see where it's at and to navigate. ... But those types of drones are just as susceptible against artifacts as a regular remote controlled drone.”

“The Commission will review an order this month that bans device testing conducted by labs that are, quote, owned or controlled directly by entities that pose national security risks. According to a statement by FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, he identified China as one example of such a country. He said it was important that US-based laboratories begin to take on the responsibility to certify such equipment.”

“In early March 1922, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover convened the first national radio conference in Washington. Despite several attempts, no successor to the outdated 1912 radio law had yet emerged. Now it could wait no longer since things had changed so radically with the rise of broadcasting.”

“K. Savatz, Kilo 6 Kilo Juliet November, the library's curator, said in the Zero Retries newsletter that the funding will permit the free library's continued operation for another two years. Phase two of the library's operation will include acquiring and digitizing material from the California Historical Radio Society and the SPARC Museum of Electrical Innovation. The library's most recent acquisitions include the Wireless Institute of Australia's Amateur Radio Magazine.”

“Amazon kicks off its satellite constellation with a launch of its first group of satellites for the Kuiper network. Changes are announced in the ARRL Atlantic Division. The CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame announces its latest inductees. Spacex is thinking about entering a spectrum battle with another satellite operator.”

“The FCC plans to tighten its requirements for testing of electronic devices made in countries such as China before they can be sold to US consumers.”

“Amazon kicks off its satellite constellation with a launch of its first group of satellites for the Kuiper network. Changes are announced in the ARRL Atlantic Division. The CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame announces its latest inductees. Spacex is thinking about entering a spectrum battle with another satellite operator.”

“In a simple way, it's sort of like the first version that the human race of a of a force field that anyone's ever created. ... Our system isn't quite to that level of sophistication yet. But as far as a version one of a force field that is a close in protective field that sends out these very, very, very high, high powered electromagnetic interference waves that when the drone if you imagine, here here's the field that we're putting out there. As the drone gets into this electromagnetic interference field, it might stutter, the camera might stop working, then it gets deeper and deeper, closer and closer into the intensity of the electromagnetic interference, and eventually, the computer just can't operate.”

“The FCC plans to tighten its requirements for testing of electronic devices made in countries such as China before they can be sold to US consumers. The Commission will review an order this month that bans device testing conducted by labs that are, quote, owned or controlled directly by entities that pose national security risks. According to a statement by FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, he identified China as one example of such a country.”

“Brazil's telecommunications regulator, ANATEL, has two big changes planned for the nation's hams. The Brazilian regulator will no longer require Morse code for amateur licenses under the changes that have been under consideration since 2020. The resolution also grants hams the ability to operate on citizens' band 11 meter frequencies. They must identify with their call signs and are limited to 10 watts of power.”

“ARDC has awarded a second grant to the Internet Archives Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications. The grant will allow Dlarc to continue curating and preserving historical content related to Ham Radio for an additional two years. The library includes a plethora of content from club newsletters to software to old printed call books that date back to the early 1900s.”

“The Commission will review an order this month that bans device testing conducted by labs that are, quote, owned or controlled directly by entities that pose national security risks. According to a statement by FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, he identified China as one example of such a country. He said it was important that US-based laboratories begin to take on the responsibility to certify such equipment.”

“Brazil's telecommunications regulator, ANATEL, has two big changes planned for the nation's hams. The Brazilian regulator will no longer require Morse code for amateur licenses under the changes that have been under consideration since 2020. The regulator will update content in its exams for its three license classes. This is one of several changes contained in a resolution released on April 28th.”

“Pure play software often struggles in these services categories because the friction of adoption is just too high for the end user. You can't just hand a traditional IT shop a new AI tool and expect them to re-engineer their entire workflow overnight. By being the service provider ourselves, we can bake the software directly into the delivery model and prove the value through better margins and faster response times.”

“The rise of the forward deployed engineers tells us a lot about how AI adoption is actually going to happen in the enterprise. It’s not just about shipping code; it’s about having engineers who sit with the customer to understand the specific edge cases of their business. We are applying that same philosophy to IT services, where the AI handles the standard stuff and our best people focus on the complex, bespoke problems.”

“As you know, Hamvention is the world's largest gathering of radio amateurs. It's held this year, May 16th through 18th in Zinnia, Ohio. There's a lot to do and see, so we want to help you use the ARRL Events App to make sure you don't miss a beat and you can plan out your visit ahead of time. Hundreds of our fellow hams have already installed the app this week and are using it.”

“For the last decades, the primes have been focused on, let's say, going out and hunting a lion or lions, like big, big beasts. You know, they have to bring in the big nets, the big guns, the big whatever that they need to go hunt lions. The problem we see today are like mice and little mice that are running around. And what we're doing with our big rockets and our our big defensive systems are using the same thing we would go up against lions against mice. Mhmm. And it's really that fundamental.”

“The FCC plans to tighten its requirements for testing of electronic devices made in countries such as China before they can be sold to US consumers. The Commission will review an order this month that bans device testing conducted by labs that are, quote, owned or controlled directly by entities that pose national security risks. According to a statement by FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, he identified China as one example of such a country.”

“Vertical integration is really the secret sauce when you are trying to disrupt a legacy services industry. By owning the full stack—from the software that routes the tickets to the technicians who actually fix the servers—you eliminate the finger-pointing that happens between vendors. This allows us to capture the full economic benefit of the automation we build, rather than just selling a license and hoping someone uses it correctly.”

“Will takes us aboard the Wayback Machine to 1922, where we find despite several attempts, no successor to the outdated 1912 radio law had yet emerged. Now it could wait no longer since things had changed so radically with the rise of broadcasting. In early March 1922, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover convened the first national radio conference in Washington.”

“The Brazilian regulator will no longer require Morse code for amateur licenses under the changes that have been under consideration since 2020.”

“ARDC has awarded a second grant to the Internet Archives Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications. The grant will allow Dlarc to continue curating and preserving historical content related to Ham Radio for an additional two years. The library includes a plethora of content from club newsletters to software to old printed call books.”

“The FCC plans to tighten its requirements for testing of electronic devices made in countries such as China before they can be sold to US consumers. The Commission will review an order this month that bans device testing conducted by labs that are owned or controlled directly by entities that pose national security risks. According to a statement by FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, he identified China as one example of such a country and said it was important that US-based laboratories begin to take on the responsibility to certify such equipment.”

“ARDC has awarded a second grant to the Internet Archives Digital Library of Amateur Radio and Communications. The grant will allow Dlarc to continue curating and preserving historical content related to Ham Radio for an additional two years. The library includes a plethora of content from club newsletters to software to old printed call books that date back to the early 1900s.”

“The FCC plans to tighten its requirements for testing of electronic devices made in countries such as China before they can be sold to US consumers. The Commission will review an order this month that bans device testing conducted by labs that are, quote, owned or controlled directly by entities that pose national security risks. According to a statement by FCC Commissioner Brendan Carr, he identified China as one example of such a country.”

“It includes Hamvention's full program. You can browse and schedule the forums, preview the extensive list of exhibitors and find all the events that are happening. During the event, you can use the app features to follow along the hourly prize drawings populated by the Dayton Hamvention Prize Committee and browse building and site maps so you can find exactly what you're looking for in all of that complex.”

“The Brazilian regulator will no longer require Morse code for amateur licenses under the changes that have been under consideration since 2020. The regulator will update content in its exams for its three license classes. This is one of several changes contained in a resolution released on April 28th by ANATEL. The regulator expects to move ahead with these changes after a six-month period in which supplementary regulations will also be issued.”

“The managed service provider market is essentially a hundred billion dollar industry that is stuck a decade behind modern technology. When you look at how most of these MSPs operate today, they are still using legacy ticketing systems and manual processes that haven't changed since the early 2010s. We saw an opportunity to come in and rebuild that stack from the ground up using AI to handle the rote tasks that consume so much human time.”

“The resolution also grants hams the ability to operate on citizens' band 11 meter frequencies. They must identify with their call signs and are limited to 10 watts of power in AM and 25 watts of power in SSB. They must also stay within authorized channels. The regulator expects to move ahead with these changes after a six months period.”

“But what we're seeing now is a a whole new chapter. It's the the stuff that's built at the big primes are not sufficient for this new fight. ... I mean, you're talking about shooting a $2,000,000 missile to Get a $10,500 drone. Right. Exactly. What you're talking about. Yes, sir. It's not sustainable. It's just not even, like, appropriate. It's like, would you ever take a huge gun or a huge I don't know what you wanna do if you don't say gun like net or what some cage would you have a cage for a lion with the bars this far apart?”

“Kaye also shared their discovery of old floppy disks containing software and meeting minutes from the Northwest Amateur Packet Radio Association. Of interest to Steve, Kaye mentioned Packet Radio Software WA7MBL mailbox version 2.04. It's a DOS work-alike of WORLI mailbox software, which originated on CP slash M systems and was later ported to DOS.”

“There's a lot to do and see, so we want to help you use the ARRL Events App to make sure you don't miss a beat and you can plan out your visit ahead of time. Hundreds of our fellow hams have already installed the app this week and are using it. It includes Hamvention's full program. You can browse and schedule the forums, preview the extensive list of exhibitors and find all the events that are happening.”

“What we're doing, with the Leonidas at EPRIS is creating basically a close in weapon system, but using electromagnetic bullets versus physical bullets to kind of provide that last line of defense. And one, it can provide a very nice last line of defense against leakers. We talked about those. Really nice line of defense against swarms. Like, the gift I gave you was a 49 shoot down, but that doesn't mean we can't shoot down 500 or a thousand or more.”

“This week, Will takes us aboard the Wayback Machine to 1922, where we find despite several attempts, no successor to the outdated 1912 radio law had yet emerged. Now it could wait no longer since things had changed so radically with the rise of broadcasting. In early March 1922, Secretary of Commerce Herbert Hoover convened the first national radio conference in Washington.”

“As you know, Hamvention is the world's largest gathering of radio amateurs. It's held this year, May 16th through 18th in Zinnia, Ohio. There's a lot to do and see, so we want to help you use the ARRL Events App to make sure you don't miss a beat and you can plan out your visit ahead of time.”

“The grant will allow Dlarc to continue curating and preserving historical content related to Ham Radio for an additional two years.”