We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: the best part about holding an amateur radio license is that it lets you build and use your own transmitting equipment. Hams have been doing this for more ...

Is your ham radio rig made of iron and steel? Is it mechanically driven? Classified as a World Heritage Site? We didn’t think so. But if you’d like to tune in one that is, or if you’re just a ham ...

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 ...

Ronald James Rockwell, right, and Clyde Haehnle. The occasion was Rockwell’s 1965 retirement party. You don’t hear a lot about homebrewing radio gear these days; it’s just too easy to call a ...

Three weeks can be an eternity for an 11-year-old - especially in the summer. But that was what Grant Morine's dad, Bill, was asking of the youngster and his brother back in the summer of 2001. Bill, ...