(click thumbnail)Fig. 1: A home-brew broadcast transmitter in Ecuador. “Home-brew” devices seem to catch an engineer’s eye. I don’t know if it’s the ingenuity aspect, the construction time involved or ...

In this day and age, with cheap online shopping, software defined radio and bargain-basement Baofengs from China, the upstart radio ham is spoilt for choice. Of course, there’s nothing quite like the ...

Factory-made radio transmitters in the 1920s were expensive, so only the largest or best-financed radio stations could afford one. Most of the country’s radio stations just bought the parts and built ...

Join us on Wednesday, March 18 at noon Pacific for the Amateur Radio Homebrewing Hack Chat with Charlie Morris! For many hams, the most enticing part of amateur radio is homebrewing. There’s a certain ...

For the first time since I went on that church ski trip and stole a bunch of wine from the hotel restaurant and huddled in a freezing bus getting hammered, I have a reason to go to Minneapolis. The ...