Amateur Radio Newsletter Round-up for March 2026

March 3, 2026The March issue of SWR Magazine:

• HamCation
• J-Pole for 6 and 10 meters
• Female Frequency

The SARC Communicator March-April 2026:

• Hidden features in the Icom IC-7300 transceiver
• Add Digital Television to Your ARES Tool Kit
• When an app outlives its creator

Ham Radio Ireland:

• Bluetooth hands free ops
• Reducing mains borne interference
• FreeDV

Zero Retries 0240:

• Impressions of ARRL’s New Digital Networking for Ham Radio Book
• New Amateur Radio Organization – Alliance Amateur Radio Society
• 2026 Hamcation AMSAT Forum | Drew Glasbrenner, KO4MA President’s Update

Random Wire 171:

• Seasonal propagation and an online propagation chart that updates every 15 minutes
• An exciting new BTECH DA-7X2 DMR/Analog Dual-Receive HT with a secret
• Looking inside a SHARI Node

Hot Iron #132

Amateur Television Journal

The Logger’s Bark

Source: Amateur Radio Daily open_in_new Newsletter The Communicator Zero Retries

Inovato, N0LSR Design Endorse Open HamClock Backend Public Server

March 1, 2026Editor’s Note: Amateur Radio Daily is a contributor to the Open HamClock Backend project and recommends their public server. Amateur Radio Daily headlines have appeared on HamClock since 2023.

Open HamClock Backend (OHB) is now providing a central server for any HamClock user to use with their existing HamClock application. With the original HamClock application scheduled to be sunset in June, the central server provided by OHB will extend the life of existing HamClock installations indefinitely. Previously, OHB users were required to host the server locally. This update allows any HamClock user to utilize OHB’s central server through a small configuration change.

When the creator of HamClock became a silent key earlier this year, the HamClock project was expected to be sunset in June 2026. While the HamClock application is open source, the backend server that powers many HamClock features was closed. OHB provides a replacement for that backend service.

Open HamClock Backend (OHB) is a community project by a team of developers with Brian Wilkins (KO4AQF) as the main contributor. It is fully open source, and it runs on servers in a commercial data center. Another example of what the ham radio community is capable of. The hosting in the data center is donated. This provides very high availability with no costs for anyone.

With the stability of the OHB project making its way to a centralized public server, Inovato and N9LSR Design recently announced that they would endorse OHB for their HamClock appliances.

Source: N0LSR Design open_in_new HamClock