Retired Senior Chief Information System Technician Lee Moburg, a wireless amateur radio (HAM) operator, manned the HAM radio at Naval Hospital Bremerton during a 2016 exercise. Some Navy leaders are ...

We usually think of the RTL-SDR as a low-cost alternative to a “real” radio, but this incredible project spearheaded by [Rodrigo Freire] shows that the two classes of devices don’t have to be mutually ...

Fox hunting, or direction finding, is a favorite pastime in the ham radio community where radio operators attempt to triangulate the position of a radio transmission. While it may have required a ...

If you're not a subscriber to the magazine, pick up this latest issue featuring Amateur Radios on newsstands mid-December, or buy a single copy in our on-line store. Both digital and print copies are ...

Facetime, Zoom, Google Meets — and ham radio. Video conferencing may have come into prominence during the coronavirus pandemic as people eagerly strive to stay connected. But in contrast to the ...

Many of today’s experienced engineers got their start in electronics through amateur, or “ham,” radio. (Many theories exist over the origin of the term “ham radio,” but there is no consensus.) Over ...

Nevermind Pandora and other online radio stations, a decidedly low-tech alternative has continued to spread on the periphery. Amateur, or ham radio, is more popular than at any time in U.S. history, ...