Radio receiver company C. Crane has introduced the CCRadio-2, a battery-operable AM/FM/Weather receiver with a twist: a ham band. During emergencies, it is not unusual for local and regional amateur ...

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 ...

There are two ways to deal with improving ham radio receivers, or — for that matter — any sort of receiver. You can filter and modify the radio frequency including the radio’s intermediate frequency, ...

A solar eclipse is coming up in just a few weeks, and although with its path of totality near the southern tip of South America means that not many people will be able to see it first-hand, there is ...

Larry Horlick still marvels when he thinks about what happens when he turns on his ham radio. "I'm taking my voice and that radio is converting it into an electrical signal and the amount of ...