If you get seriously interested in the hobby, you can buy a mountain of equipment from companies like Ham Radio Outlet. You can also often purchase good-quality used gear from hamfests ...

Ham radio is no different ... Granted, these radios aren’t in the impulse buy category like the handheld radios. Still, you can find them new for around $1,000 and used for less.

This time around he’s helping out a friend who is a ham radio enthusiast. The friend’s radio didn’t come with a frequency display, and buying the add-on would cost more than the radio did.

or buy a single copy in our on-line store. Both digital and print copies are available. “When all else fails”—in 2003, the Amateur Radio Relay League used this as the motto for Field Day, the annual ...