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The American Radio Relay League‘s Ward Silver’s terrific webinar on leveraging contesting as training for public service communications.http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b00yUN7qQEs

For years, the Electro Voice RE20 was the studio standard we radio announcers loved. It seemed to enhance the bottom end of our voices, giving us a three-pack-a-day throat without the cigarettes. Today the SURE SM7B and the Heil PR40 often supplant RE20s in the control room. But NPR uses Neumann U87 mics, considered the…

As heard on 5985 khz on June 26th.

One of the hottest sellers at Dayton in 2016 was the Tytera MD-380 handheld UHF radio. At just over $100 dollars it opened the door for many more hams to explore Digital Mobile Radio (DMR). There are a lot of great web resources to learn about DMR. So this piece will be brief, just enough…

Seven years ago I first had the honor of meeting K5UR at the Rocky Mountain Division gathering in Taos. Rick Roderick was an ARRL vice president in those days and his message still resonates: Relevant, Resilient, Ready. He touched on those points and many more in an inspiring address at the 2016 Hamcon conference in Keystone,…

Beyond the horrors of interrogation and torture, lack of information about what’s happening on the outside is was a huge challenge for prisoners of war during World War II. Here’s how POW’s kept informed by  making their own radios while in captivity.

Here’s something fun.Play around with circuit design using your favorite browser. Works best with basic circuitry.A good parallel to software solutions like Multisim & PSpice

Band conditions getting you down? Turn to “The Terminator”! Here’s a great article on how to work the Gray Line.