News and advocacy
What the Alliance is doing — filings with the FCC, statements, new resources and the work behind them.
Spot a contact, see who else is on the air
A spotting page of our own: post the station you are working, read what everyone else is hearing, and filter it down to the band or mode you care about.
Club Week is a week away — put your club on the map
Club Week runs November 1 to 8. Signing up takes a minute, puts your club on the national participants list, and gives you a week of ready-made reasons to invite people in.
A rebuilt usnara.org, a new wiki and a better board back end
The Alliance has relaunched its website with far more for clubs and individual operators, a community amateur radio wiki, and a more efficient back end for board members.
NARA opens a community amateur radio wiki
A community-maintained reference library for amateur radio — licensing, regulations, operating, antennas and history — free to read and open to members to edit.
NARA receives its first major charitable contribution
A $500 grant from the Robert C. Albert Fund at the Chicago Community Foundation — the Alliance’s first major charitable gift.
NARA turns one as America turns 250
The National Amateur Radio Alliance marks its first year on July 4, 2026 — the same day the United States marks its 250th.
NARA at Hamvention for the first time
The Alliance took a stand at Hamvention in Xenia, Ohio in May 2026 — our first appearance at the largest amateur radio gathering in the United States.
Ham Threads joins NARA, and members get the gear
Ham Threads — a ham radio apparel and merchandise company, and a NARA member itself — is now offering its lineup to NARA members.
NARA at Hamcation for the first time
The Alliance set up at Orlando Hamcation — our first time at the show — to meet operators, clubs and vendors face to face.
NARA welcomes the FCC decision expanding 60-meter access
The FCC has allocated a continuous 15 kHz band at 5351.5–5366.5 kHz to the Amateur Radio Service while keeping the existing four channels — a new home for QRP experimentation.
NARA attends one of the largest emcomm events in the Midwest
A week at the Central States Communications Association Red River Bootcamp in Oklahoma — 100+ students from 13 states, four days of COMT, COML, ITSL, INTD and AUXCOMM training and a full disaster exercise.
NARA attends Spark-Con and teams up with Mo-Kan
A great weekend in Sedalia at the ARRL® Midwest Division convention — and NARA is backing the Mo-Kan Regional Council of Amateur Radio Organizations.
A thousand strong
What started as a simple idea has grown into a community of more than a thousand supporters.
NARA statement on FCC Docket 25-201 and proposed 70cm band use by AST
NARA has filed opposition comments against AST & Science’s request to use 430–440 MHz for satellite telemetry, tracking and control.
NARA launches WhatIsHamRadio.com
The Alliance has purchased and built WhatIsHamRadio.com, a plain-English introduction to amateur radio for people who have never touched a transceiver.
Long Island CW Club backs the Alfred Vail 20-20 award
The Long Island CW Club has offered its full support for our Young Keyers Award — a significant step for recognizing young operators keeping Morse code alive.
NARA joins the fight for homeowners’ antenna rights
The Alliance backs the Amateur Radio Emergency Preparedness Act (H.R. 1094 / S. 459) — and has written a letter members can send to their own representatives today.
Announcing the Alfred Vail 20-20 Young Keyers Award
A new award for operators under 20 who can send and receive Morse code at 20 words per minute or better.
NARA files comments with the FCC on GN Docket No. 25-133
Responding to the FCC’s review of obsolete and burdensome regulations, NARA urged the Commission to preserve amateur licensing standards and protected spectrum.
NARA adopts a ten-region structure aligned with FEMA
Ten regions matching the FEMA regions, three territories, a Regional Director for each region and State Representatives in every state — plus a call for volunteers.
NARA announces plans for a State of Amateur Radio survey
We are preparing the most comprehensive survey of how amateur radio operators actually operate — and how they see the hobby — released in stages over the coming year.
NARA responds to the ARRL® cease and desist request
The ARRL® asked NARA to stop describing itself as “A National Association for Amateur Radio Operators.” We disagree that it caused confusion — and we are complying anyway.
NARA supports the ARRL® World Amateur Radio Day open house event
The Alliance encourages every club to open its doors on World Amateur Radio Day, April 18, and is offering a press release template clubs can customize to promote their event.
NARA announces Club Week, our first annual on-air event
Not a contest: a relaxed nine days on the air for clubs, running November 1 to 8, built around conversation, QSL cards and bringing new operators on the air.
From around the hobby
Headlines from the amateur radio press. Each one opens on the publisher's own site. Read more of them.
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Surge in sales of domestic radios in the UK - Oct 2026
EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity · Oct 28, 2026
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SLAM Navigation For an Arduino Powered Car
Hackaday · Oct 28, 2026
There are plenty of “robot” projects out there that are really just a small remote control platform of some sort. We often like to think of robots of having some …read more
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TechTip #5: When is a balun not a balun?
Ham Radio Outside the Box · Oct 28, 2026
TechTips are occasional brief posts describing easy ways to do difficult things. What is a balun? The simplest definition is “a device for connecting a balanced line to an unbalanced line.” Many hams use the term generically to refer to the device that goes in between the antenna wire and the coax…
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Hacking a Marine Radio Dish
Hackaday · Oct 28, 2026
Having watched some fun videos on repurposed satellite dishes on YouTube, [Melan] wanted to get in on the action, managed to source an Intellian i4 — a dish built for …read more
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Tricking out a QMX+ some options
With Varying Frequency - Amateur Radio Ponderings · Oct 27, 2026
In addition to the TA7MNA battery/audio board, there are other options to trick out your QMX+ transceiver: Jon KC2STH has a bunch of upgrades, including the TA7MNA boards, at: https://www.cqhomesteadsupply.com/ 73 Steve K9ZW
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FlexRadio Hardware added to ZeusSDR
With Varying Frequency - Amateur Radio Ponderings · Oct 27, 2026
Unless you had one of the supported radios, you most likely would be new to ZeusSDR. Seems that for any contemporary FlexRadio that is on your LAN you can try it out as YAFC (Yet Another Flex Client). https://zeussdr.com/ 73 Steve K9ZW
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A New Ham’s Guide to Overcomplicating Everything – How Well Does My Station Work in the Field?
QRPer · Oct 27, 2026
by Josh Stringer (VE3YTX) Being a new ham, I’m constantly coming across technical questions that I don’t know how to answer. Recently I’ve started going to my local POTA park and activating using CW (I’m currently working on my first Kilo!). I’d set up my end-fed half-wave in a tree and start sendin…
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New Amateur Radio Products for October 2026 at DX Engineering
OnAllBands · Oct 27, 2026
Including four new DX Engineering branded products to upgrade your station *** OnAllBands has been working hard to cover all the new products now available at DX Engineering. The influx […] The post New Amateur Radio Products for October 2026 at DX Engineering appeared first on OnAllBands.
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New Propagation Software from 8P5AB in Barbados
EI7GL....A diary of amateur radio activity · Oct 27, 2026
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The times they are a-changin’
The SWLing Post Blog · Oct 27, 2026
Hi to all our SWLing Post friends. Here’s what Imaginary Stations has planned (after that clock changing exercise last week) for your shortwave radio/SDR listening pleasure. On Wednesday 28th October 2026, at 0200 hrs UTC on 9395 kHz. We bring you another edition of WHFM: Herman’s Radio & Record Roo…
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TopicBench: Free Open Source Multi-Broker MQTT Explorer and Monitor in Rust
QRZ NOW · Oct 26, 2026
TopicBench by Agile Automation is a free open source MQTT explorer and monitor written in 100 percent Rust. Connect to several brokers at once, browse live topic trees, pin stickies, graph values, publish test traffic, and debug ham IoT fleets from one fast desktop window. The post TopicBench: Free…
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Moo-ving Between Bands: An HF/VHF/UHF SOTA Activation on Bearwallow Mountain
QRPer · Oct 26, 2026
by Thomas (K4SWL) On Thursday, October 1, 2026, I had an opening in my schedule that I wanted to fill with a little SOTA. It was a spectacular day here in Western North Carolina, and I knew I had just enough time to activate a summit that wouldn’t require too much driving or hiking. I … Continue rea…