Little known fact about me -- I am an amateur radio operator and have been dabbling in radio technology for about a decade now. I picked up the hobby when I lived in a rural part of Vermont with no ...

There is a long history of spacecraft carrying ham radio gear, as the Space Shuttle, Mir, and the ISS have all had hams aboard with gear capable of talking to the Earth. However, this month, the ISS ...

Ignoring all of the regulations, band allocations, and “best amateur practices,” there’s no real fundamental difference between the frequencies allocated to the Family Radio Service (FRS), the General ...

Two years ago, in my home state of Kentucky, we had a devastating tornado that traveled nearly 200 miles, leveled towns, killed scores of people, and left widespread devastation. When emergency ...

Back in the 1960’s, the entry level amateur radio license was called the novice license. To earn this license, you needed to ...

Doug Rice connects to satellites using an antenna he made from coat hangers, leftover screws, a furring strip and a camera tripod he found in the trash. Now, the 46-year-old Lancaster man uses the ...

MATTOON — A new state-of-the-art repeater ham radio antenna was installed on Friday more than 160 feet above Mattoon on behalf of the Moultrie Amateur Radio Klub. A crew from Griffin Tower Connections ...

The Beaverhead-Deerlodge National Forest installed the radio repeater and antennae in July 2020 on top of O’Dell Mountain in the West Pioneer Wilderness Study Area. It took a while for the fur to fly.