Amateur

In the radio business, gaining a high position is key to covering as many areas as possible from as few installations as possible. Everything that has a high profile, from a large municipal water tank to a coastal billboard to a remote hilltop, will probably be bristling with antennas, and various services are vying for […]

There was a time when amateur radio was a rather static activity. There was a lot of fascination with building radio stations, but what you did with them remained constant throughout the year. The Morse code is sent by hand with a key, the voice was on FM or SSB with a few old-fashioned AM

A story that has been on the burner for several weeks is disturbing proposal to be presented at the ITU 2023 World Radiocommunication Conference. It originates from the French spectrum regulators and is reported to be by order of the Paris-based multinational defense company Thales. The sting in its tail is the proposed fall of

You probably wouldn’t expect to see someone making astronomical observations during a cloudy day in the center of a dense urban area, but that’s exactly what’s happening at the recent Philadelphia Mini Maker Faire in 2019. Professor James Aguirre of the University of Pennsylvania demonstrated the particularly compact Mini Radio Telescope (MRT) project, built around

Join us on Wednesday, February 5 at noon in the Pacific for Maintenance of ham radio, suitable hack chat with Josh Us! It may not seem like it, but amateur radio is fighting a battle on two fronts for its continued existence. On the spectrum side, hams face the constant threat that the precious remnants