MeshCore has quietly arrived on the scene and if you’re interested in off-grid communications with inexpensive hardware, this might be just what you’re looking for. Launched just a couple of months ago, MeshCore is already generating buzz among amateur radio operators and open-source developers for its clean approach to decentralized…
Geomagnetic activity remains below storm levels through Monday. R1–R2 blackout chance: 15% today.
Forecast Details →NOAA · Oct. 24 00:30 UTC
WSJT-X has added JTTY, a new digital mode that lets amateur radio operators exchange typed messages without the fixed transmit-and-receive periods used by FT8. Available in public test releases, it combines conversational and contest operation with error-correcting techniques intended to recover text more reliably than conventional radioteletype.
Amateur radio operators in North America and Europe are preparing to make transatlantic HF contacts from mountaintops on Nov. 7, 2026, during the 19th Trans-Atlantic Summit-to-Summit event. The coordinated operating period gives portable stations on both sides of the ocean a shared window to find one another, with participants planning stations ranging from low-power CW equipment to 100-watt voice setups.
Two ERMINAZ-2 amateur satellites returned their first received signals October 3 after an earlier-than-expected deployment caught their ground team unprepared, AMSAT-Deutschland reported October 5. Reception in Bochum, Germany, and elsewhere provided the first telemetry used to assess the spacecraft after release.
