Red River Radio Amateurs

Even in today’s world we still need people that … know morsecode. Because when all things fail we will go back to the basics. Morsecode is that basic thing in communication. You can do it with very simple equipment or no equipment at all as long as you know the language.

This video—from the NSA Youtube Channel—shows a great antenna and a way of direction finding from the cold war era. It also features the importance of morsecode in the military, even today. Although the video is 5 years old it still is relevant.

KB9VBR counts down his ten most watched ham radio videos of 2025. Did your favorite make the list?

Amateur Radio Weekly is an e-mail newsletter featuring links to the most relevant news, projects, technology, videos, and events happening in Ham Radio.

At the end of each year Cale K4HCK—the editor—takes a look back at all the previous issues of Amateur Radio Weekly and determines which links were most popular among its readers.

I traveled to North Texas for Christmas. This is the ham radio gear I brought and how I packed it to get past TSA without any problems.

ARDC has launched 44Net Connect, a new portal designed to make it easier for ham radio operators to gain access to and experiment with subnets of the 44.0.0.0/8 IP address space.