The radio system used in the project ' ARIS ', in which astronauts communicate with amateur radio operators and school students on the earth using amateur radios installed on the International Space ...

Amateur radio operators like to say that working a contact in space can be done with a simple handheld transceiver and a homemade antenna. And while that’s true, it’s true only for low Earth orbit ...

Like any hobby, amateur radio has no upper bounds on what you can spend getting geared up. Shacks worth tens of thousands of dollars are easy to come by, and we’ll venture a guess that there are hams ...