Many believe that ham radio is dying with all of the modern communications technology. Not so. There are still three million hams around the world, a quarter in America.

As the roaring twenties came to a close, radio technology would continue to evolve with significant improvements to consumer sets, particularly in the area of shortwave reception. Read my past ...

The City of Portage has put forth more effort to find affordable housing for its residents. Comstock Township Planning Commission votes to recommend approval of BESS ordinance The Comstock Township ...

Jim Charlong works his Morse code key. All photos courtesy of Parks Canada. GLACE BAY, Nova Scotia — On Dec.17, 1902, from the seaside Table Head radio station at Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Guglielmo ...

Jarret Brown, 41, purchased his very first vintage radio at a flea market when he was about 20 years old. It was a little white RCA Victor for which he paid no more than $2. Today, it lives in his ...

(click thumbnail)A beautiful RCA BTA-1R is freed after years entombed behind some remodeling. The transmitter is now at the home of a Pennsylvania ham who plans to put it on 160 m shortwave. Ever ...

[Mikrowave1] wanted to build an authentic 1930s-style ham radio station that was portable. He’s already done a regenerative receiver, but now he’s starting on a tube transmitter that runs on batteries ...

VIENNA — Members and friends of the Parkersburg Amateur Radio Klub will observe the centennial of the International Amateur Radio Union with “Ham Radio Open House” on Friday, April 18, at the Grand ...

What are ham radios? In short, ham radio operators are amateur radio enthusiasts who communicate with one another via radio frequencies assigned specifically to this community by the Federal ...

In this day and age, there are countless methods of communication, but let's not leave radios in the past. Although smartphones offer similar functions, radios are still a trusted form of ...