08/09/2022
ARRL has unveiled its new Radio Laboratory, W1HQ. In a new YouTube video[1], Jherica Goodgame, KI5HTA, a summer intern at ARRL Headquarters, tours viewers through the station.
"The ARRL Radio Lab is an innovative test space designed to reshape the way we imagine and build a ham radio shack," said Goodgame. The station is intended to inspire members to build, organize, and equip their own stations in innovative ways. "From a decluttered workspace and a digital user interface, to being able to remote into the equipment from anywhere, W1HQ is a step towards the future of amateur radio stations," Goodgame added.
The station includes a new tower and antennas atop the main administrative building at ARRL Headquarters in Newington, Connecticut. Inside the station, three operating positions provide an interface to rack-mounted and computer-controlled transceivers, amplifiers, antenna switches, and rotators.
Goodgame explained that the Radio Lab will also support equipment testing and QST Product Review. "An extension of product reviews in the future will be to take that piece of gear that we're testing, put it on this test bench, and see how it integrates with a station that's already under full automation and control," she said.
The video is published on ARRL's YouTube channel at
https://youtu.be/68BJxGHg74Y[2].
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https://youtu.be/68BJxGHg74Y
[2]
https://youtu.be/68BJxGHg74Y%20
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