Little known fact about me -- I am an amateur radio operator and have been dabbling in radio technology for about a decade now. I picked up the hobby when I lived in a rural part of Vermont with no ...

One of the first things that an amateur radio operator is likely to do once receiving their license is grab a dual-band handheld and try to make contacts with a local repeater. After the initial ...

The National Institute of Technology Karnataka (NITK), Surathkal, has put in place a setup, which is a combination of VHF (very high frequency) digital repeaters, antenna, and other accessories, to ...

Jack Dellinger likes modern communications as well as the next fellow. The York Township resident has seven phones and four computers in his home, and a cell phone always with him. Yet when it comes ...

A ZiLOG microcomputer comprises the Ham Radio Repeater Locator which has flash memory used to store the frequencies and locations of several thousand repeaters. The distance to the nearest 8 repeaters ...

What are ham radios? In short, ham radio operators are amateur radio enthusiasts who communicate with one another via radio frequencies assigned specifically to this community by the Federal ...

The circuit was designed to create an automatic repeater that would retransmit a received signal over the amateur radio frequency band. Repeater – a device that regenerates information at a higher ...

An amateur radio repeater used to be a complex assemblage of equipment that would easily fill a 19″ rack. There would be a receiver and a separate transmitter, usually repurposed from commercial units ...