If you’d rather get started with FT8 first, we can help you out. For better or worse, ham radio and computers are inextricably married.

Ham radio is no ... of course, you can control the whole thing from a PC if you want to. The receivers are exceptional compared to what even a high-end radio would offer a few decades ago.

"We don’t need modern technology for amateur radio," Gitro explained. "We need a battery, a generator, something to power a ...