During the American solar eclipses of October 2023 and April 2024, hundreds of radio amateurs will take to the airwaves. Their goal is to help scientists investigate what happens to radio signals when ...

Amateur, or ham radio operators have always been hackers. For much of the early 1900’s, buying a radio was expensive or impossible. Hams would build their own rigs, learning electronics and radio ...

This is an exciting day for me — we finally get to build some ham radio gear! To me, building gear is the big attraction of amateur radio as a hobby. Sure, it’s cool to buy a radio, even a cheap one, ...

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ALTON — Ham radio is a big thing for a big parade. Ham radio operators are key to keeping Alton’s Halloween Parade on track and on time. Ham radio, also known as amateur radio, is anything but ...

Members of the Jackson Amateur Radio Club gathered Saturday, Sept. 9, at Highlands Presbyterian Church in Ridgeland to participate in “Churches on the Air,” an annual ecumenical event begun in England ...

I recently spoke with David Sumner (K1ZZ), the CEO of the Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL), at the Dayton Hamvention, the big ham conference held every year in Dayton, Ohio. If you’re a ham, you know ...

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What are ham radios? In short, ham radio operators are amateur radio enthusiasts who communicate with one another via radio frequencies assigned specifically to this community by the Federal ...

The newest trend in American communication isn't another smartphone from Apple or Google but one of the elder statesmen of communication: Ham radio licenses are at an all time high, with over 700,000 ...

Washington — WASHINGTON--Think of ham radio, and the image that crops up may be of a ‘50s whiz kid building his own receiver, or a retiree tapping out Morse code in some darkened room: at best an ...