It is popular to blame new technology for killing things. The Internet killed newspapers. Video killed the radio star. Is FT8, a new digital technology, poised to kill off ham radio? The community ...

Radio receiver company C. Crane has introduced the CCRadio-2, a battery-operable AM/FM/Weather receiver with a twist: a ham band. During emergencies, it is not unusual for local and regional amateur ...

There was a time when only the richest ham radio operators could have a radio with a panadapter. Back in the day, this was basically a spectrum analyzer that monitored a broad slice of the ...

Ham radio operator Frank Krizan of Texas, who spends his summers in Scarborough, performs "Hunt and Pounce," a method of scanning the radio band for stations waiting for a turn to call them, during ...

Over the years, I have owned and used many radios to tune into international shortwave radio broadcasts, including the iconic Panasonic RF-2200 from the 1980s. But few have impressed me as much as the ...

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 ...

This article is intended to introduce the beginner to the interesting and challenging art of high frequency radio design. It is also intended to entice the seasoned professional to take a deeper look ...