In 1972, Martin Jue was a young entrepreneur who decided to use his electrical engineering expertise to start a new business, MFJ Enterprises, in Starkville, his adopted hometown. The cottage industry ...

A few years back, [Floyd, K8AC] built a high frequency autotuner as an addition to his Ham radio setup. Based off a design he saw in QST magazine back in the early ’90s, he has been using the tuner ...

One set was connected to a circa-1980s ham radio tuner. The other went 65 feet to the top of a steam-powered pile driver at Thresherman’s Park. “Murphy’s law,” Cramer said. “You can sit at home and ...

Something that all radio amateurs encounter sooner or later is the subject of impedance matching. If you’d like to make sure all that power is transferred from your transmitter into the antenna and ...

The Franzis Tube Radio kit comes with all the parts, knobs and dials you'll need to build it (although the PDF instructions are only in Dutch or German), and the product page says that this is a world ...

A group of hobbyists who have become experts in a low-tech form of communication are now a vital link helping local first responders in the event of a worst-case scenario. Bruce Wolfe likes to spend ...