ARRL Section Manager Nomination Results

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Below are the results of our recent Section Manager nomination period for the term beginning 1st January 2026, and declared elected, with no opposition:

New Section Managers

  • Michigan – Ralph Katz, AA8RK

  • Santa Barbara – Keith Elliott, W6KME

Continuing

  • Alabama – Dennis Littleton, K4DL

  • Alaska – David Stevens, KL7EB

  • Delaware – Steven Keller, KC3DSO

  • East Bay – Mike Patterson, N6JGA

  • Kansas – Ron Cowan, KBØDTI

  • New Mexico – Bill Mader, K8TE

  • Tennessee – David Thomas, KM4NYI

  • Western Massachusetts – Ray LaJoie, AA1SE

A Radio Homecoming, One Century Later

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A Radio Homecoming, One Century Later

Australia, where, for a few hours, one radio operator is returning ham radio to the former home of the first lady of radio in the state of Victoria. 

Elizabeth Hutchings, VK3HM, had the distinction of being the first YL licensed as an amateur radio operator in the state of Victoria, Australia. Radio apparently was in the family's genes -- in the 1920s, her son Alan held the callsign VK3HL and her daughter, Marjorie, was licensed as VK3HQ. 

Some 100 years later, on the Callawadda land where the family's old radio shack still stands, Geoff Smart, VK3GCM, is putting amateur radio back into action. He chose this property, known as Bryn Avon, as his QTH for the Australian Ladies Amateur Radio Association's annual competition. Geoff knew Bryn Avon from commercial consultancy work he had done, but he only learned of its connection to ham radio after reading an article by ALARA historian Jennifer Wardrop VK3WQ.

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Heritage School Radio Club gets off to a Flying Start

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Heritage School Radio Club gets off to a Flying Start

During the Summer 2025 term, the Electronics Club at Heritage School in Cambridge became the ‘Heritage School Electronics & Radio Club (G7HSC)’ and had a term full of radio-related activity.

The club previously looked at making electronic circuits, with a focus on understanding the roles of individual components and how to use them in combination. This practical spirit has remained and during the last term club members made radio-related circuits including crystal MW receivers, metal detectors (to reinforce the role of the inductor) and a crystal oscillator. The latter allowed teams to compete against each other in Morsecode battleships.

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