Journalist Tea Krulos wrote about Milwaukee's amateur radio community for this month's Milwaukee Magazine. He joined Lake ...

Ham radio is no different ... You made do with surplus gear or used equipment. Globalization has made radios much less expensive, while technological advances have made them vastly more capable.

“They have radio equipment here and ... There are four basic types of ham radios. Handheld transceivers, the most common, have a range of a few miles but, when used through a repeater station ...

That’s around 475 kHz and 136 kHz. Ham radio operators have long used digital modes like radio teletype and with restrictions on antennas and increasing interference from wireless networking to ...