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The American Radio Relay League (ARRL) is the largest membership association of amateur radio enthusiasts in the United States. ARRL is a non-profit organization and was co-founded on April 6, 1914, by Hiram Percy Maxim and Clarence D. Tuska of Hartford, Connecticut .
Logbook of the World (LoTW) is a web-accessed database provided by the American Radio Relay League (ARRL) to implement a contact verification service among amateur radio operators. Using LoTW, radio amateurs (hams) are able to claim and verify contacts (QSOs) made with other amateurs, generally for claiming credit for operating awards, such as ...
ARRL World Grid Locator Atlas. Newington, CT: American Radio Relay League. 2007. Containing all 32,400 Maidenhead Locator Squares; IARU Locator of Europe. Potters Bar, UK: Radio Society of Great Britain. 1984. IARU Locator of Western Europe. Potters Bar, UK: Radio Society of Great Britain. 1985. (scale 1:2,000,000) ARRL Amateur Radio Map of ...
The NTS as it exists today was first outlined by George Hart, W1NJM (died 24 March 2013) in "New National Traffic Plan: ARRL Maps New Traffic Organization for All Amateurs" as part of the September 1949 issue of QST. While traffic passing between amateur radio operators was nothing new, Hart's system extended coverage of traffic capability in a ...
All stages of the transceiver were on individual circuit boards: the transmitter was capable of about one or two watts of RF, and the receiver was a direct-conversion unit, similar to that found in the Heathkit HW-7 and HW-8 lines, which introduced many amateurs to QRP'ing and led to the popularity of the mode.
For example, the peak envelope power limits for the highest available license classes in a few selected countries are: 2.25 kW in Canada; [67] 1.5 kW in the United States; 1.0 kW in Belgium, Luxembourg, Switzerland, South Africa and New Zealand; 750 W in Germany; 500 W in Italy; 400 W in Australia, India, and the United Kingdom; and 150 W in Oman.
Although most of their membership is located in other IARU regions, the American Radio Relay League and the Radio Society of Great Britain are full member societies of IARU Region 3. The ARRL represents amateur radio operators in American Samoa , Guam , the Northern Marianas , and other dependent territories in the Pacific Ocean .
Radio amateurs have been early in arranging relay leagues, as is reflected in the name of the organization of American Radio Relay League (ARRL).. Radio amateur message relay operations were originally conducted in the first two decades of the 20th century using Morse code via spark-gap transmitters.