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 ...

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.

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 ...