As ARRL president, [Rick Roderick, K5UR] spends a significant amount of time proselytising the hobby. He has a standard talk about amateur radio that ... t come easy to us. But when I looked ...

Amateur radio enthusiasts in the US will be interested in Faraday, an open-source digital radio that runs on 915 MHz, which amateur radio enthusiasts may know better as the 33 cm band. You can ...

The sting in its tail is the proposed relegation of amateur radio to secondary status of the widely used two-meter band (144 MHz ... The latest ARRL news is that there has been little opposition ...

Eventually they approached the ARRL, the USA’s national amateur radio organisation, who sent along [Kermit Carlson, W9XA] to investigate. He fairly quickly identified the frequencies with the ...

Amateur radio is the ultimate hacker’s hobby. You can design, build, and put on the air your own high power transceivers. And with this homemade gear you are able to reach out directly, not ...

According to [Rappaport] there are already encoded messages that can’t be read on the ham radio airwaves and ... and is thus not permitted on amateur bands. The ARRL argues that this is actually ...

Summer is the season for family road trips here in the US, and my family took ... been associated with Citizens Band (CB) radio. A section of the 11-meter amateur radio band was set aside by ...

Today we start a new series dedicated to amateur radio for cheapskates ... s plenty to do and loads to learn on these bands. The band plan for US hams. Note that Technicians only have phone ...

The rise of cell phones and personal computers was widely forecast to be a major blow to amateur radio, and for several years the hobby was in decline, Martin says. “Nobody thought they needed it with ...

The ARRL Handbook is an electronics and RF engineering guide published by the Amateur Radio Relay League in the US. It’s a wonderful reference, and past editions can be had very inexpensively ...

American inventor and radar detector pioneer Michael D. Valentine has died at the age of 74 at his home in Cincinnati, Ohio.

“A topic mostly unknown to those outside of the amateur radio community, QSL cards represent a time in global communication before the internet age, yet distinctly remind us of the social ...