Interestingly, there were plans to deploy ham radio equipment in the days of Apollo program (see Project Moonray). The ideas were from the mid-60s, after OSCAR-1 but before Star Trek had aired on ...

I recently spoke with David Sumner (K1ZZ), the CEO of the Amateur Radio Relay League (ARRL), at the Dayton Hamvention, the big ham conference held every year in Dayton, Ohio. ...

[Mikrowave1] wanted to build an authentic 1930s-style ham radio station that was portable. ... He’s settled on a popular design for the time, a Jones push-pull transmitter.

ATLANTA – Seeking reliable backup communication in a crisis, emergency managers are finding new solutions in an old technology: ham radio. “It’s just another avenue, another opportunity for ...

While such complex and brittle networks succumb to fracture, organic means of communication remain available and abundant—if only planners know where to look and how to tap into it. Amateur radio, ...

(TNS) - The International Space Station cost more than $100 billion. A ham radio set can be had for a few hundred bucks. Perhaps that explains, in part, the appeal of having one of humankind's ...

Media Platforms Design Team. ... (ARISS), which maintains a ham radio station on the ISS that astronauts can use to chat with radio (and space) enthusiasts back here on the blue marble.

Astronauts on the International Space Station can now talk with people on Earth with video using simple transmitters. 'Ham TV' has been set up in ESA's Columbus laboratory and already used for ...

Ham radio operators from the Geauga and Lake County areas will be participating in a national amateur radio exercise from 2 p.m. June 22 until 2 p.m. June 23. The event is ARRL Field Day, an ...

Members of the Southeast Missouri Amateur Radio Club, along with onlookers, spent Saturday afternoon and overnight operating four ham radio stations from Klaus Park at Jackson, trying to contact ...