For many of us older guys, our first experience with home brew was building a crystal radio. Incredibly simple, yet also incredibly magical, some wire a paper tube and a piece of rock suddenly sent Tiger Baseball into our headphones. From our friends at CrystalRadio.net, some accessible and fun radio…

If you’ve ever sung in the shower and hit a note where the sound seemed to amplify, you’ve experienced resonance. Every antenna has a particular frequency on which it is “resonant”. When we transmit on a radio frequency that is resonant with the antenna, very little power is lost and…

Can radio amateurs connect their computers across a wireless network? You bet. Firing data between ham stations is as old as the Morse Code. With the advent of Packet Radio Two popular ways to do it are D-RATS and HSMM-MESH. D-RATS is a lot like what Internet Relay Chat used to…

Newly licensed? Learn about 2 meter repeaters in this edition of the Ham Radio Tutorial courtesy of N1QQ. Find more tutorials here.