One problem with ham radio these days is that most hams live where you can’t put a big old antenna up due to city laws and homeowner covenants. If you’re just working local stations on VHF or ...

Talking about this Chinese ham radio transceiver requires a veritable flurry of acronyms: HF, SSB, QRP, and SDR to start with. [Paul] does a nice job of unboxing the rig and checking it out.

Nothing says you’re on vacation like enjoying a decadent meal in the comfort of your hotel room. Not only is the demand for in-room dining on the rise at hotels around the world, but according ...

Hotel rooms, you may have noticed, tend to be dim: Even when you turn on every light in the room it’s all warm, low-level light. There are usually heavy blackout curtains on the windows ...

They’d like you to think so. Since they bulk buy millions of hotel rooms, OTAs make much of their power to deliver cheaper prices to consumers, but is that really the case? Most of the time you ...

Hotel Room, 12 th Floor is a pessimistic poem that questions humanity’s ability to defeat primitive impulses. MacCaig concludes the poem by suggesting that, despite our advances, humanity cannot ...

Initial impacts of strong Radio Blackouts in HF radio communication underway. This could potentially have impacts on #Helene response with HAM radio being utilized." An image shared in the post ...

For the opportunistic traveler, unusually low hotel room rates can be an incredible value or an incredible hassle—often both. To understand mistake hotel rates, it helps to understand how hotels ...

securing a hotel room (and a discounted one, at that) is only one click away. But while the online booking process may be more convenient, many travelers still make small missteps that can end up ...

Brian Webb says ham radio has opened up the world to him - from making friends at his club, to speaking to someone in Brazil “Amateur radio has honestly changed my life, I’ve friends all over ...