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 ...

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 ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. For some ham radio enthusiasts, it's all about communicating. But for others, it's just not the same if they don't build their ...

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 ...

Ham radio operators bouncing signals off the moon have become old hat. But a ham radio transmitter on the Chinese Longjiang-2 satellite is orbiting the moon and has sent back pictures of the Earth and ...

On July 22, 2025, Radio World republished one of my articles from October 25, 2011. The title was, “Rebuild That Relic of an AM Transmitter.” The idea of the article is to keep an old tube-type AM ...

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, ...