Curious about what you can hear on shortwave ham radio? This video is a brief survey of the diverse world of communications on the shortwave spectrum. Expand your radio horizons and enhance your emergency communication preparedness by tuning in to the world of shortwave ham radio. If you’ve started delving into radio communications beyond local […]

Turning back time to virtually witness a critical historic method of shortwave communication using the fundamental mode of continuous wave modulation. This is a film from 1944, teaching the basics of Morse code, for military comms. What is the proper (and most efficient) technique for creating Morse code by hand, using a manual Morse code […]

Before modern radio broadcasting, the trails were being blazed both in public broadcast, but also critical links out of the local area. Here’s a side-look back in time…. in this 1939 Film: New Zealand Shortwave Communications; Morse code (CW) The romance of the radiotelegraph service (in this video, the service in New Zealand) is a […]

If you have not yet explored ham radio repeaters, this might be interesting to you. What is an amateur radio repeater and how do they work? In this video, with a non-amateur-radio viewer in mind, I chat about the very basic concepts of a repeater. It is filmed in a relaxed, “ride along with me,” […]

Before modern radio broadcasting, the trails were being blazed both in public broadcast, but also critical links out of the local area. Here’s a side-look back in time…. in this 1939 Film: New Zealand Shortwave Communications; Morse code (CW) The romance of the radiotelegraph service (in this video, the service in New Zealand) is a […]

If you have not yet explored ham radio repeaters, this might be interesting to you. What is an amateur radio repeater and how do they work? In this video, with a non-amateur-radio viewer in mind, I chat about the very basic concepts of a repeater. It is filmed in a relaxed, “ride along with me,” […]