Radio Messenger Is What Ham Radio Chat Should Have Been All Along
Amateur radio operators have been sending digital messages since the 1980s. Decades of packet radio,…
APRSdroid NA7Q Edition: The Most Feature-Rich APRS Client for Android
For years, APRSdroid has been one of the most widely used APRS applications available for…
The Iconic aprs.fi App Finally Lands on Android!
For a solid decade, a running joke in the amateur radio community went something like…
Navigating the Unseen: The Science, History, and Mastery of the Magnetic Compass
For thousands of years, traveling across vast oceans or featureless deserts was a gamble against…
The Copper-Wire Internet: How Ham Radio Conquered Real-Time Data and Global Spotting Before the Internet Wielded Its Might
Today, tracking a rare DX station or viewing the live movement of a portable radio…
APRStac: A Modern APRS Suite in a Single Binary
APRStac is an APRS web client, digipeater, I-Gate, BBS, fileshare host, email gateway, and multi-protocol…
When Amateur Radio Meets Search and Rescue: LoRa APRS in the Search for Missing Hiker Jaslinda
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d2TUYJ63BOM When people hear the words amateur radio, many still picture hobbyists talking over the…
SARTrack: From Ham Radio Hobby to Life-Saving Search and Rescue Command System
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ABUuiv8prU If you have ever wondered how modern search and rescue teams coordinate dozens of…
Top Amateur Radio Open Source Projects in 2026
Open source software runs a huge part of modern amateur radio. From FT8 contacts to…