MarketScale

Icom Powers 3Y0K: Ham Radio’s Most Ambitious DXpedition to Remote Bouvet Island (Part 2)

Icom America's Ray Novak interviews DXpedition co-leader Cezar Trifu on the logistics, safety, and teamwork behind activating ...
GitHub

ICOM IC-746 CAT Control Emulation for Arduino

This library implements the ICOM CI-V CAT protocol emulating an IC-746 transceiver. The library has been tested on a homebrew transceiver of my creation. It has been demonstrated to work with an ...
The Globe and Mail

Provinces are making amateur radio operators an official part of extreme-weather planning

During the ice storm of 1998, power lines and transmission towers in Quebec and Ontario collapsed under layers of ice, taking out communications and leaving millions of people stranded without ...
Geeky Gadgets

Convert a Raspberry Pi Into a Global Ham Radio Transmitter

What if you could broadcast signals across the globe using just a credit-card-sized computer and a handful of components? It might sound like a scene from a sci-fi novel, but with a Raspberry Pi and ...
PC Magazine

No Interference? AST SpaceMobile Defends Use of Ham Radio Spectrum

AST SpaceMobile plans to use the spectrum in a limited capacity. Still, it faces fierce pushback from amateur radio groups, some of which claim interference is already happening. Facing thousands of ...
PC Magazine

Ham Radio Users Clash With Starlink Rival AST SpaceMobile Over Spectrum Use

UPDATE 8/6: AST SpaceMobile has responded in a filing with the FCC, arguing that it designed its satellites to "mitigate interference" with amateur radio bands. Original Story: AST SpaceMobile and its ...
PC Magazine

Ham Radio Users Clash With Starlink Rival AST SpaceMobile Over Spectrum Use

AST wants to use the 430 to 440MHz band for a satellite-to-phone service. Ham radio enthusiasts say the company's plan is vague and could interfere with their slim slice of spectrum. AST SpaceMobile ...
KTLA

Handwritten notes, HAM radio help rescue mother, son lost in California forest

A 49-year-old woman and her 9-year-old son who found themselves stranded deep in the dense Stanislaus National Forest late last week left a trail of handwritten notes that helped their rescuers locate ...
marketscale

Icom Powers 3Y0K: Ham Radio’s Most Ambitious DXpedition to Remote Bouvet Island (Part 1)

Bouvet Island sits at the edge of the world. It is frozen, uninhabited, and almost impossible to access. Fewer people have set foot there than in space. That level of remoteness is exactly what makes ...
TribLIVE.com

Collier ham radio club tries to 'solve the world's problems'

It’s a hobby with a responsibility. That’s how the 80 members of the Steel City Amateur Radio Club in Collier view the skill, science and enjoyment of participating in ham radio. “It’s a fun place to ...
AZ Central

On the air: Amateur radio buffs will hold ham radio field day in Big Flats. See schedule

Dozens of ham radio enthusiasts will gather at Harris Hill Park in Big Flats June 28-29 for the annual Amateur Radio Association of the Southern Tier Field Day. The event will feature a continuous ...
Indy Week

In an Uncertain Time, Ham Radio Sees a Signal Boost

Tom Beckett gestures toward a window on the third floor of the Durham County Main Library. “We’re in the middle of a geomagnetic storm,” he announces. The room chuckles. There are no swirling vortexes ...