HAM radio may seem antiquated by today's standards, but there are still plenty of good reasons to get licensed.
How radios send and receive information can seem magical to the uninformed. For some people, this week’s Retrotechtacular video, “Frequency Modulation – Part 1 Basic Principles”, from the US Army ...
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 ...
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 ...
Tue, 24 Jun 2014 00:09:15 GMT — When runners were overcome by heat at last weekends Chase Corporate Challenge, it was area Ham Radio operators who alerted emergency help. It's common, but not widely ...
Radios and walkie-talkies may seem like relics from your childhood, but nothing can quite compare to the convenience and simplicity of a pair of two-way radios. The freedom from reliance on a cellular ...
In this day and age, there are countless methods of communication, but let's not leave radios in the past. Although smartphones offer similar functions, radios are still a trusted form of ...
MIDDLETON — North Shore ham radio enthusiasts took part in a world-wide amateur radio field day last weekend to learn how to use the technology during emergencies and connect with others around the ...
Saginaw resident and self-professed "Ham" Fred Kleinfeld spent a large chunk of his Saturday selling boxes of miscellaneous coax cable, generators, terminal strips and a tableful of other am radio ...
Since the discovery that some USB TV tuner dongles could be used to monitor radio waves across a huge amount of spectrum, the software-defined radio world has exploded with interest. The one limiting ...
'It is nice to know it makes such a huge impact.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's been 40 years since the first astronaut ...