Nowadays, you can get into ham radio on the cheap. A handheld radio can be had for less than $30, and licensing is cheap or free depending on where you live. However, like most hobbies, you tend to ...
In this day and age, with cheap online shopping, software defined radio and bargain-basement Baofengs from China, the upstart radio ham is spoilt for choice. Of course, there’s nothing quite like the ...
It was a crystal radio set that pulled Kurt Stefans in. He was in 5th grade and, like many youths in the 1950s, '60s and '70s, he found himself interested in radio communications. The crystal radio ...