As ARRL president, [Rick Roderick, K5UR] spends a significant amount of time proselytising the hobby. He has a standard talk about amateur radio that involves tales gleaned from his many decades ...

We run a lot of posts on amateur radio here at Hackaday ... So let’s say that you want to get your “ticket” (and you live in the USA). It’s easy: just study for an exam or two, and ...

Amateur radio is the only hobby that offers its licensed operators the chance to legally design, build, and operate high power radio transceivers connected to unlimited antenna arrays for the ...

The latest ARRL news is that there has been ... resource governed by international treaties penned in your grandparents’ time. Amateur radio is a different regulatory being from the licence ...

Every licenced radio amateur ... were first licenced or what level of radio examination you have passed. You are only as good as the last piece of radio equipment you built, and the last station ...

The Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club has to relocate one of its sites by the end of July. The current Mesa location on city ...

We’re no strangers to digital-mode amateur radio around here. But if you’re an amateur who hasn’t played around with digital modes yet, this might be a good way to get your feet wet.

If you’re traveling off-grid and want to communicate with others, this guide to using Winlink can help you send emails using a ham radio. While there are a number of ways to access the Winlink ...

Also called "ham radio," it is wireless voice communications that can reach "ham operators" up to hundreds of miles away, sometimes thousands. Amateur radio is often a hobby, but can also be a ...

Each month a group of dedicated Ham radio operators with the Amateur Radio Club meet at Church on the Move in Plains. Ham radios, owned by thousands around the world, communicate on radio frequencies ...

April 12, 2024 • Money makes the world go around, faster and faster all the time. At Planet Money, a multimedia team of reporters tracks down the economists, investors and regular folks who are ...

It’s doubtful that you can accurately count them even in your own home. But what principles of the electromagnetic spectrum allow radio to work, and how do antenna design, modulation ...