Today on the Bands — Tuesday, October 13, 2026
Tuesday brings a tidy mix of CW craft and clever radios: John VE3IPS tackles the leap from copying to sending while Hackaday coaxes SDR out of a WiFi router....
Today on the Bands — Monday, October 12, 2026
Monday brings a pleasing mix of bench and field: a badge-worthy EMF Explorer, a POTA outing that turns into a troubleshooting masterclass, and a classic Ham...
Today on the Bands — Sunday, October 11, 2026
Sunday's roundup leans practical and a little nostalgic: documenting your station so future-you isn't baffled, a neural net taking a crack at CW, and a...
Today on the Bands — Saturday, October 10, 2026
Saturday's roundup spans the full spectrum, from Hurricane Watch Net preparations and surge protection to a clever K2 transverter hack and a fresh POTA keyer...
Today on the Bands — Friday, October 9, 2026
Friday brings a split personality to the hobby: part emergency net, part forward-looking tech talk. The Hurricane Watch Net is live for Isaias even as ARRL...
Today on the Bands — Thursday, October 8, 2026
Thursday finds us watching two kinds of weather: the solar kind, as Cycle 25 begins its long exhale, and the tropical kind, as Isaias pushes toward the Gulf...
Today on the Bands — Wednesday, October 7, 2026
Wednesday brings a healthy dose of SDR tinkering, from a budget Flex to an ESP32 pressed into radio duty, with plenty of RTL-SDR fun in between. On the field...
Today on the Bands — Tuesday, October 6, 2026
A quiet Gulf isn't staying quiet, so the Hurricane Watch Net is back at the dials as Invest 92L eyes storm status. Elsewhere the mood is lighter: KX2 side...
Today on the Bands — Sunday, October 4, 2026
Sunday brings a satisfying mix of the practical and the curious, from a lively ICQ Podcast roundtable asking whether RADE might one day rival SSB to a candid...
Today on the Bands — Saturday, October 3, 2026
Saturday brings a weekend packed with on-air action, from the Collegiate QSO Party lighting up campus clubs to fresh POTA outings testing gear and old keys....
Today on the Bands — Friday, October 2, 2026
Happy Friday, operators — the weekend brings college clubs flooding the bands and plenty to chew on besides. We've got bug-key artistry on a POTA bench, a...
Today on the Bands — Thursday, October 1, 2026
Happy October, and a fresh month means fresh contest calendars, software to tinker with, and challenges worth embracing. Today leans heavily toward the shack...
Today on the Bands — Wednesday, September 30, 2026
From the shores of Astoria to the skies above with satellite chasers, today's digest spans the whole radio landscape. We're watching mediumwave signals fade...
Today on the Bands — Tuesday, September 29, 2026
Tuesday brings a fine mix of mountaintop camaraderie and bench-side experimentation, from a West Coast SOTA outing to machine-learning digital voice on HF....
Today on the Bands — Monday, September 28, 2026
Monday's mix leans into the joys of doing things the hard way, from CW through a satellite to a five-park Ohio rove. We've also got networking of the 44Net...
Today on the Bands — Sunday, September 27, 2026
Sunday brings a mix of the somber and the soaring: we pause to remember four Silent Keys before heading to the high lakes of Banff, poking through vintage...
Today on the Bands — Saturday, September 26, 2026
Saturday brings a mix of digital innovation and institutional insight, with WSJT-X's new JTTY mode promising RTTY-style speed for contesters and DXers alike....
Today on the Bands — Friday, September 25, 2026
Regulatory winds are stirring today, with ARRL asking whether the RADE digital voice mode could one day dethrone SSB, and fresh FCC/HHS proceedings on RF...
Today on the Bands — Thursday, September 24, 2026
Good Thursday morning. Today leans heavily toward getting outdoors and getting on the air, with Lewis and Clark trail activations, Salty Walt's field prep...
Today on the Bands — Wednesday, September 23, 2026
Wednesday brings a healthy mix of the paper and the practical: QSL cards that pay you back, tips for wrangling a group POTA outing, and a couple of shortwave...
