History
A Short History of Amateur Radio
By OneShack Staff
From spark gaps and the Radio Act of 1912 to OSCAR 1, the end of code testing and FT8: key moments in more than a century of ham radio.
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Equipment · History
Remember When? Crystal Calibrators and the Art of Finding Your Frequency
By Bill Rinker, W6OAV
Before digital readouts, knowing where you were transmitting took two dials, a crystal oscillator and a half hour of warm-up. How hams in the 1950s and 60s got onto the right frequency.