Courtesy of QRZ.com.

Remember Prodigy? What happens when an on-line service goes offline? Here’s a fascinating tale about the resurrection of one of our early interactive faves.

Via VA3XPR.net: On June 9th, the US Federal Communications Commission, commonly known as the FCC, officially approved the use of Time Division Multiple Access (TDMA), the modulation type used by Digital Mobile Radio (DMR), for ham radio use. In FCC Decision FCC 14-74 issued on June 9, 2014, the FCC outlined…

100 years ago, a small group of radio amateurs founded an organization to celebrate, innovate and support their hobby. Ever since, the American Radio Relay League has been at the center of the evolution of amateur radio. Hearty congratulations to the headquarters team and to the many thousands of ARRL…

A Classic post from 2011 by WIRED’s David Rowan: Somehow it makes little sense that amateur “ham” radio continues to thrive in the age of Twitter, Facebook and iPhones. Yet the century-old communications technology — which demands such commitment that you must generally pass an exam to receive a licence — currently…

An oldie but a goodie from 2008. Learn more about what we hams call “Radiosport” here.

For those of us with broadcast engineering roots. Looking back at 11 Off-The-Air & Abandoned Radio Stations. How many times did you see a tower field in the distance and seek out the studios at it’s base?

Echolink is working again at W8MSU! Connect via W8MSU-R Node 289654 Thanks to Gregg Mulder WB8LZG for doing the heavy lifting! From the July, 1920 United States Department of Commerce, Radio Division publication, “Amateur Radio Stations of the U.S.”: Station 8YG appears, licensed to Michigan Agricultural College, operating on 200…

Since revitalizing our social media presence, the MSUARC Facebook page has grown to over 100 Likes. Our new @W8MSU Twitter feed launched this week. Followership there is more slow to grow and depends on what you post. We had 35 faithful at last check. W8EO and I participated in the…

There have been several iterations of W9WSW.com over the years. We first created it with raw HTML, updating each page with Notepad. Several years ago we moved to WordPress. Somewhere in New Mexico, my database got corrupted, so we’re rebuilding again. If it’s vaguely connected with amateur radio, I’ll try…