What is ham radio and why do they do it 3 Articles

by Cynthia Wall

What is Ham Radio? At 2 a.m. in October 1973, my stepmother was hard at work in front of her ham station. She was "phone patching" a wounded soldier in Vietnam home to his mother in the states so that she could offer wo...read more

by Scott Thayer

Amateur (Ham radio) is one those hobbies, that has many different branches, and each one of these branches, can be a "sub-hobbie" - some of those could be things like Digital Communication, Satellite's, Low power Operation...read more

by Kenneth Eicher

So, you are interested in Ham Radio. Ham radio, officially called the Amateur Radio Service by the Federal Communications Commission in the United States, is a hobby, an avocation, a pastime, a calling, a public service op...read more