Indian astronaut Shubhanshu Shukla will today (July 4) interact with the country’s students using a ham radio from the International Space Station (ISS). Here is a look at ham radio, how it works, and ...

While ham radio operators have been embracing digital mobile radio (DMR), the equipment is most often bought since — at least in early incarnations — it needs a proprietary CODEC to convert speech to ...

Finding a satellite 22,000 miles above Earth's surface requires precision. Tim Keller, of Coram, positioned a dish antenna outside the Longwood Youth Center on Saturday, aiming it toward the GOES-19 ...

Run a DMR network server with a frontend, authentication, private and group calls and a parrot all in a single binary ...

The Indian Institute of Hams (IIH) has installed 20 Digital Mobile Radio (DMR) base stations for operating Ham radios in government residential schools across the State. The schools, which are located ...

When I was a kid living near Grantsville, West Virginia, some of my neighbors were into amateur ham radio. I found their analog electronics and antennas and their mastery of Morse code fascinating.

The bad memories of Hurricane Helene’ s destruction remain fresh in the minds of many, with widespread destruction and the death toll now over 200. Communications networks were knocked out in many ...

Casey Freund of Thermopolis, Wyoming, goes by the call sign KC7E, but that’s not his TikTok handle. He’s one of the few who don’t need Wi-Fi or smartphones to keep in touch with civilization. He’s a ...