Category: Amateur Radio (Ham Radio)

As soon as radio amateurs establish contact over the radio, they exchange signal reports, typically in the R-S-T format. R-S-T stands for Readability, Strength and Tone, though the

I still have the sweet memories of working a lot DX on CW in late 1980s using my homebrew 3 x 807 radio. That was a great upgrade

Some of my friends have been able to work 10m band over the past few days and I was on the lookout for stations on 10m. I heard

Ever since I came back to HF in January 2024, my friends have been advising me to go for a linear amplifier. In VU land, the General Class

In a response to a post in the HamSCI (Ham Radio Science Citizen Investigation) Google Group, N8SBE mentioned that 700-800 MHz is quite useful for first responders as it

When I started using computers long back, mouse had only two buttons, a left and a right button. Then came three button mouse with an extra scroll button.

Yesterday I came across a piece of PVC pipe brought by the plumber who told me that it is ASTM. That prompted a Google search as usual and

Recently when I read about IC-7760 launched at the Tokyo Ham Fair, it was mentioned that it can be operated over a home local area network. Little did

Radio amateurs are very fond of getting signal reports from whichever station they work. When I started off in 1985, I did not have any S meter in