We’ve said it before and we’ll say it again: the best part about holding an amateur radio license is that it lets you build and use your own transmitting equipment. Hams have been doing this for more ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. For some ham radio enthusiasts, it's all about communicating. But for others, it's just not the same if they don't build their ...

Amateur, or ham radio operators have always been hackers. For much of the early 1900’s, buying a radio was expensive or impossible. Hams would build their own rigs, learning electronics and radio ...

On July 22, 2025, Radio World republished one of my articles from October 25, 2011. The title was, “Rebuild That Relic of an AM Transmitter.” The idea of the article is to keep an old tube-type AM ...

It was a recent rainy Saturday morning in Hickory Hill Park, a beautiful 185-acre tract of public land tucked next to St. Joseph’s Cemetery in Iowa City. Members of the Iowa City Amateur Radio Club ...