This is an exciting day for me — we finally get to build some ham radio gear ... Sure, it’s cool to buy a radio, even a cheap one, and be able to hit a repeater that you think is unreachable.

The radio can also be set up as a cross-band repeater, which holds some interesting possibilities for me. Almost all FM mobile ham rigs these days are digital, and many of them support one or the ...

Also known as ham radio, this old-school method of technology ... Gold said. Many of the repeaters, which are automated relay stations that have broad coverage, were offline because of Helene.

Vashon has its own ham radio cadre that regularly practices for disasters that could take island communications offline. The Auxiliary Communications Service (ACS), a project of the Vashon-Maury ...

RF repeaters are available for both electronic and optical signals and can support a wide range of modulation formats and traffic capacity. RF repeaters are generally located at higher elevations, ...