The average daily sunspot numbers for the past week rose nearly 25 points, or about 27 percent, to 117.3. The big day was Monday, May 14 when the daily sunspot number jumped to 156. This was the day after four new sunspot groups, numbered 1481 through 148...

Have you ever wanted to see a photo of yours in QST, the annual ARRL Amateur Radio Calendar or another ARRL publication? Well, here’s your chance! If you’re among the winners, not only will your photographic skill be propagated far and wide, but we’re off...

By Stan Horzepa, WA1LOUContributing EditorThis week, Surfin’ tries to unclutter the house and learns about more open source software.Old Magazines Fill My HouseI have copies of every issue of QST going back to the mid-1960s, when I first became interested...

CQ magazine announced its 2012 Hall of Fame inductees on May 18, welcoming 16 new members into the CQ Amateur Radio Hall of Fame, three new members of the CQ DX Hall of Fame and two new members of the CQ Contest Hall of Fame.The CQ Amateur Radio Hall of F...

The Japanese HORYU-2 research satellite was launched May 17 at 1639 UTC as part of a mission that included the JAXA climate observation satellite Shizuku.HORYU-2 was built by students at the Kyushu Institute of Technology (KIT) and it carries the call sig...