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While vacuum electronic devices have largely been superseded over much of consumer electronics, there’s one place where they can still...
What do you need to make a radio transmitter? There are builds that work with just a couple of transistors....
When you think of directional ham radio antennas, you probably think of a Yagi, cubical quad, or a log-periodic antenna....
The ESC has published its annual report, covering the operation of the amateur radio exams during the calendar year of...
There are a bunch of ways to estimate the age of a radio amateur, by the letters in their callsign,...
WRC-23 has reached the halfway point, including progress on 23cm, but then included a raft of meetings over the weekend...
In a world increasingly reliant on technology, a pressing question arises: can our dependence on gadgets, particularly mobile phones, be...
Sustained radio emissions originating from high over a sunspot are getting researchers thinking in new directions. Unlike solar radio bursts —...
In this edition: * Update on AMSAT’s Participation in ESA Geostationary Project * September/October 2023 Edition of The AMSAT Journal...
The latest RSGB 2023 Convention video to be released is three presentations in one, on the topic of 23cms. Barry Lewis,...
There’s a mystique among both audiophiles and musicians about vacuum technology, thus having a tube amp still carries a bit...
Youth-operated stations around the world are part of a special event celebrating Youth in Amateur Radio (aka YOTA or Youth...
Meetings continued on Tuesday and Wednesday on various items including 23cm, Radar Sounders and Space weather. Chairing the long and...
Like many people spent a lot of time in the 1970s listening to shortwave radio. While you often think of...
Week-2 of WRC-23 started with a 9am meeting of the AI-9.1b, 23cm topic, followed by 40-50MHz radar sounders. The latest...
This beautiful little radio may look like an art deco relic from a hundred years ago, but it is actually...
WRC-23 finished its first week with all current agenda items underway and an early discussion on new ones for WRC27/31....
In this edition: * Happy 10th Birthday FUNcube-1 (AO-73) * AMSAT Servers Back In Service After Brief Outage * HERON...
The first week of the 2023 ITU World Radiocommunication Conference (WRC-23) has seen discussions get underway on a wide variety...
A newly licensed amateur radio operator’s first foray into radios is likely to be a VHF or UHF radio with...
Engineers tend to worry about uptime, whether it’s at a corporate server farm or just our own little hobby servers...
Wednesday (Day-3) saw the start of the discussions on Agenda-Item 9.1b – regarding Radio Navigation Satellites and Amateur Radio in...
When most people think of tube circuits, the first thing that comes to mind is often the use of high-voltage...
WRC23 Day-2 saw the conference structure launch working groups and subgroups, as individual agenda items got underway and documents introduced....