Amateur Radio Quiz: Workbench Wisdom

Even though you might be an inveterate tinkerer and builder, it’s occasionally a good idea to put down those hot irons, sweep off the workbench and turn off the test equipment. This quiz is for you!

FCC Reaffirms Statement on ROS

In mid-February, European amateurs first used a new, experimental digital mode known as ROS. On February 23, 2010 — after FCC review of the original documents provided from the developer’s Web site — the FCC made the following statements on ROS:

ARRL Seeks Input for New IARU Region 2 Band Plan

The International Amateur Radio Region 2 conference — held later this year in El Salvador — brings together delegations from the national Amateur Radio Societies in the Western Hemisphere. One of the topics on the agenda will be the Region 2 HF band plan. This band plan is “harmonized with” — spectrum management-speak for “very similar to” — the IARU Region 1 and Region 3 band plans.

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