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Best Laptop for Ham Radio

If you are a ham radio operator or are thinking about getting your amateur radio license, then there must be one piece of hardware in your shack – the radio itself. But though radios may come in many different shapes and sizes, they all have one thing in common: They need power! So what do …

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Emergency Frequencies For Ham Radio

Knowing emergency frequencies for Ham radio is as critical as having the radio. That’s right. Most people think their bug-out bags or emergency preparations are complete the moment they buy a handy dandy Ham radio. However, unless the radio is programmed to receive the right Ham radio frequencies, it is pretty much useless. Therefore, you …

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Oscilloscopes and Ham Radio

The need for a ham radio oscilloscope is not often discussed in the amateur radio community. The low cost of many modern digital signal processing (DSP) based equipment has made it possible to analyze signals without an oscilloscope. However, there are still occasions when an oscilloscope provides value that other instruments cannot provide. This article …

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Is Ham Radio Dead?

Ham radio has been around since the late 1800s. James Clerk Maxwell had a theory that communications could be improved utilizing the electromagnetic field. By 1901, Guglielmo Marconi had begun to communicate across the Atlantic Ocean utilizing his radio device with high power and huge antennas. Communications would continue to improve from there. In 1896 …

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How Does Ham Radio Work? (Complete Beginners Guide!)

Ham radio is a great hobby for those who like to tinker and experiment with technology. It also offers the opportunity to help serve as an important resource during emergencies or disasters, when other communication systems might not be working. This guide will walk you through everything you need to know about getting started in ham radio.

How Many Watts Does a Ham Radio Use

There’s no hard and fast rule on what power you’ll need for your specific setup, but there are some guidelines we can give you based on how large your antenna is.

Ham Radio Antenna Placement (Explained!)

The placement of your Ham Radio Antenna is very important in amateur radio, you do not want to be wasting any of your ham radio equipment’s full potential and ham radio antennas are no exception.