Crawford Amateur Radio Society

Supporting Amateur Radio in NW PA since 1972

Supporting Amateur Radio in NWPA since 1972

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2026 Hamvention Wrap-Up -- Weather or Not…

It’s a tradition for Hamvention® … it must rain for at least part of at least one day … and this year didn’t disappoint! Showers and even the occasional downpour [...]

Hamvention 2026 Friday -- Let the Fun Begin!

Hamvention® 2026 in Xenia, Ohio, is officially under way, with large crowds filling the five exhibit halls, four forum rooms, and the giant flea market. Here’s a summary of Friday, [...]

The ARRL Solar Update

Solar activity remained at low levels this past week. Region 4436 wasresponsible for the majority of the C-flare activity, including thelargest flare of the period, a C2.3 that peaked on [...]

Hamvention 2026 Thursday -- Setup Day and Much More

Hamvention® 2026 in Xenia, Ohio, officially begins on Friday morning, May 15. But several hundred hams arrived early to take part in pre-Hamvention activities. ARRL The National Association for Amateur Radio® [...]

The ARRL Solar Update

Solar activity was at low levels this past week with occasionalB-class and isolated low-level C-class flares. The largest event ofthe period was a C1.4/Sf flare from Region 4429 on May [...]

STEM On and Off the Air

The Garden School Amateur Radio Club in Jackson Heights, New York, K2GSG, was started in September 2016 as a way to implement the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) standard [...]

Learn More About SDR

The Boston Software Defined Radio User Group, SDR-Boston, is hosting the New England Workshop for Software Defined Radio 2026 (NEWSDR), June 4 - 5, at Worcester Polytechnic Institute (WPI) in [...]

The Ham Radio World Heads to Ohio

Hamvention® 2026 is just over a week away, and the world’s largest in-person amateur radio gathering promises another three-day weekend of total immersion in all things ham radio. According to [...]