Author Steve Herman (W7VOA) has been a licensed amateur radio operator for over 50 years and is a retired Voice of America correspondent. To the average gamer, the “Hill” is a high-fidelity map in ...

After building a CW practice machine, I felt satisfied and ended up taking a two-year break.In July 2023, while hiking a ...

Last Saturday, more than 150 listeners across the U.S., Italy, France and Japan huddled by their radios to decipher a series of Morse Code transmitted by the Maritime Radio Historical Society. MRHS ...

Today at one past midnight, a form of communication long used by both radio amateurs and communications pioneers slipped further into the annals of history. The FCC formally removed the requirement ...

When the first radios and telegraph lines were put into service, essentially the only way to communicate was to use Morse code. The first transmitters had extremely inefficient designs by today’s ...