This is an exciting day for me — we finally get to build some ham radio gear! To me, building gear is the big attraction of amateur radio as a hobby. Sure, it’s cool to buy a radio, even a cheap one, ...

In this day and age, there are countless methods of communication, but let's not leave radios in the past. Although smartphones offer similar functions, radios are still a trusted form of ...

Two years ago, in my home state of Kentucky, we had a devastating tornado that traveled nearly 200 miles, leveled towns, killed scores of people, and left widespread devastation. When emergency ...

The Bell Technology Center is going old school, teaching kids how to build their own amateur radios, with an eye on the future. The nonprofit wants to narrow the digital divide by inspiring more ...

Ham radio operator Frank Krizan of Texas, who spends his summers in Scarborough, performs "Hunt and Pounce," a method of scanning the radio band for stations waiting for a turn to call them, during ...

The Internet Archive is aiming to build up a new library of old content. It's expanding beyond Flash games and animations, movies, books and (of course) snapshots of websites with the Digital Library ...

Though the nonprofit’s project is focused on the history of radio, the project’s archivist said he also wants to preserve old internet communications as well. Reading time 3 minutes As much as some ...

When I was a kid living near Grantsville, West Virginia, some of my neighbors were into amateur ham radio. I found their analog electronics and antennas and their mastery of Morse code fascinating.

'It is nice to know it makes such a huge impact.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's been 40 years since the first astronaut ...