Step 3: Get the Best Ham Radio Equipment for You. Once licensed, it’s equipment time. For novices, there are starter kits that contain all the essentials.

Amateur radio was first used on a space shuttle to establish communication between space and Earth in 1983. Here is why ...

While ham radio operators have been embracing digital mobile radio (DMR), the equipment is most often bought since — at least in early incarnations — it needs a proprietary CODEC to convert ...

He graduated to ham radio at age 14. “England was about the best I could do” for conversations, he said. “I didn’t have powerful enough equipment for beyond that,” he said.

When all else fails, ham radio,” said club member John Kowalk, who has been doing amateur radio since the 1950s. Kowalk said ...

Ham radio operators from around the country will participate in a nationwide test on June 28th-29th to check their skills and ...

Sometimes disaster strikes and conventional communication systems fail. Here's how amateur ham radio operators provide a crucial link between those in affected areas and the outside world.

Ham radio operators across southeast Wisconsin are gearing up for a nationwide communications drill. It's part of the annual ...

By any metric, the New York Marathon is an immense production. The 50,000+ runners who are starting the race on Sunday November 3 make this the world’s largest marathon.Their route will take ...

A group of Ham Radio enthusiasts are gathered in a parking area off Route 518 to take part in a two-day annual event that’s a ...

Experienced ham radio operators who used their own equipment, at first, with the particular goal of intercepting transmissions from enemy agents on home soil. At the start of the war, ham ...