ARRL West Texas Section

Lou Janis WB5YFW is organizing an “Introduction to Electronics” class to be held on Saturdays August 10th through October 5th at Cisco College in Abilene. See the attached flyer for more information. Brochure_Introduction_to_Electronics_2024-1

This Saturday the San Angelo ARC will welcome the 7290 Traffic Net folks from all over West Texas for a meet and greet picnic, and tailgate swap & sell. Link below for info on the 7290 net. Information on the…

West Texas was rattled by a series of earthquakes, including a 4.9 magnitude event, Monday night in Scurry County. According to the United States Geological Survey (USGS), Scurry County was rocked Monday night by a reported 4.9-magnitude earthquake. Most of…

ARRL Board Completes 2024 Second Meeting, Approves Report to Advance a 3-Year Strategy ARRL President Rick Roderick, K5UR, gaveled in the 2024 Second Meeting of the ARRL Board of Directors on Friday, July 19, in Windsor, Connecticut. The Board meeting…

Hello Everyone, With the ARRL’s bulk internet server still inoperative I am using our Zoom meeting roster to convey some important information to you and to share some thoughts regarding the current situation and the potential for more of the…

The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) finally confirmed that some of its employees’ data was stolen in a May ransomware attack initially described as a “serious incident.” ARRL, the National Association for Amateur Radio, said in data breach notifications recently…

Updated 07/09/2024 As previously reported, ARRL® Logbook of The World® (LoTW®) returned to service on Monday, July 1, 2024. As anticipated, there was a significant rise in use to catch up on processing logs following the outage. It took 4…

The Hurricane Watch Net concluded operations for Tropical Cyclone Beryl Monday at 12:00 PM EDT (1600 UTC). This has been a long 8 days of starting and stopping. However, this in no way compares to those who’ve lived through this…

07/02/2024 ARRL previously reported that we are responding to a serious incident involving access to our network and headquarters-based systems. Several services have been affected, including those administered by the ARRL Volunteer Examiner Coordinator (ARRL VEC). Exam Registrations and Materials. ARRL Volunteer…

MEMBER BULLETIN July 1, 2024 Dear ARRL member, Effective 12:00pm ET / 16:00 UTC we will be returning Logbook of The World® (LoTW®) to service. As work progressed on the network, some users encountered LoTW opening briefly during which some…