Although the term ‘Iron Curtain’ from the Cold War brings to mind something like the Berlin Wall and its forbidding...
Cold War
It begins with a scratchy burst of static, followed by a man’s voice cutting through the air. “Tavajoh! Tavajoh! Tavajoh!”...
The Space Race, that high-tech Cold War competition to see which global superpower could conquer the cosmos first, was such...
In the global game of nuclear brinksmanship, secrets are the coin of the realm. This was especially true during the...
For the most part, the Radio Apocalypse series has focused on the radio systems developed during the early days of...
Even in the early days of the Cold War, it quickly became apparent that simply having hundreds or even thousands...
A mysterious shortwave radio signal that has puzzled intelligence agencies and amateur radio enthusiasts for decades has once again broadcast...
Shortly after US president Donald Trump hung up a call with Russia’s Vladimir Putin this spring, an obscure shortwave radio channel, broadcasting from a...
Each year a series of Military Radio Nets take place during Hamvention. This year includes the WW2 Low Power &...
Release Date: January 18, 2025 Here is a summary of the news trending…This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's edition...
This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio. For the full version please...
In this edition: * India Launches SpaDeX Satellites with Amateur Radio Experiment * Parker Solar Probe Achieves Closest-Ever Approach to...
Space and mystery always spark our curiosity, so when we stumbled upon the story of Skynet-1A, Britain’s first communication satellite...
Release Date: March 23, 2024 Here is a summary of the news trending This Week in Amateur Radio. This week's...
This is a 1-hour version of the weekly podcast for This Week in Amateur Radio. For the full version please...
April 6, 2024, 08:30 – 12:30 On Saturday, April 6, 2024, between 08:30 – 12:30, the West Carleton Amateur Radio...
Members of the Champlain Valley Amateur Radio Club gathered last weekend at the Atlas F Missile Silo in Champlain to...
With a UHF antenna, it is easy to rotate a directional antenna to find the bearing to a transmitter. But...
One of the global news stories this week has been the passing of the British monarch, Queen Elizabeth II. Since...
It is with sadness that we note the passing of John Birkett, proprietor of the legendary eponymous surplus radio and electronics store on...
The New York Times carries an interesting article about shortwave radio which reads: As Russia is trying to cut off...
An abiding memory for a teen fascinated by electronics and radio in the 1970s and 1980s is the proliferation of...
On July 4th, 1976, as Americans celebrated the country’s bicentennial with beer and bottle rockets, a strong signal began disrupting...
