Good manners on the air never go out of style, and now there's a net dedicated to making sure they don't. Time to brush up on your on-air etiquette — and your general manners — because a new net has launched with exactly that in mind.

The Sunflower GAPT Net does a bit of both things its name promises. Launched by the Sunflower Linked System, the net lives up to its title: Good Amateur Practice and Trivia — GAPT for short. Net control duties fall to Daryl Stout, NK5LA.

There's something wonderfully incongruous about a modern HF rig calling CQ from a site that predates the wheel. That's exactly what just happened in southeastern Turkey.

Amateur radio operators broadcasting from Karahantepe — part of the Taş Tepeler Neolithic network, pronounced "carra-hon-TEP-pay" — connected with nearly 1,000 stations across 40 countries during a three-day operation aimed at putting the ancient site on the global map.

Two threads of the same story are converging in Washington right now: one about testing the systems that warn the public in a crisis, the other about making sure those warnings can still reach people in their cars.

US broadcasters and communications providers are gearing up for a nationwide test of the Emergency Alert System (EAS) on 17th November. Participants include analogue radio and TV stations, digital broadcast systems, and cable TV systems, all of whom received advance notice from the Federal Communications Commission, as required. The test will be broadcast in both English and Spanish.