QSL cards, which stand for “I confirm receipt of your transmission,” were commonplace in the early 20th century, when millions of ham radio operators tuned into specific radio frequencies to ...

At the height of the Cold War when I was 13 years old, I got my amateur (ham) radio novice license. From the confines of a cramped closet in my bedroom, my “ham shack,” I talked via Morse code ...

QSL "calling cards" became a highlight of ham radio in the hobby's early days, and the McLean County Museum of History has a colorful one from a cartoonist in its ...

Jun. 24—BLUEFIELD — Local ham radio operators will be participating this weekend in a national amateur radio exercise, ARRL Field Day, an annual amateur radio activity organized since 1933 by ...

Also called "ham radio," it is wireless voice communications that can reach "ham operators" up to hundreds of miles away, sometimes thousands. Amateur radio is often a hobby, but can also be a ...

A ham radio operator in India falsely claimed to have made contact with the Crew Dragon capsule via ham radio during last weekend's Demo-2 mission. According to NASA, that call never happened.

Ham-licensed astronauts on the ISS can spend their downtime at the station's ham setup just chatting with Earthlings at random, and if you time it right, you could make contact.

The FCC is circulating a proposal for new rules pertaining to amateur radio in the United States. In particular, they want to remove certain baud rate restrictions that have been in place since 198… ...

Amateur radio operators in Australia will play a small but important part in receiving pictures from the first space flight in polar orbit. The history-making Fram2 mission, the first crewed space ...

Ham radio enthusiasts spent the weekend travelling from lighthouse to lighthouse on P.E.I. to send out messages across the world. When a lighthouse was in their sight, they would broadcast the ...

Ham radio operators are hoping to download up to three images during each pass, which could last up to 10 minutes from horizon to horizon. Each image will take about 26 seconds to decode.

Anybody can grab a USB TV tuner card and start monitoring the airwaves, but to get into the real meat of radio you’ll need your amateur radio license. Once you have that, the bandwidth really… ...