20160511: May 11, 2016: 5:05 am - 5:20 am

From his home studio/ham shack in suburban Chicago, Hap Holly, KC9RP, produces this 10 to 15- minute weekly amateur radio program service, featuring timely interviews, occasional thought-provoking com...

Russell Hutchinson: May 07, 2016: 6:30 am - 6:45 am

This week: Regular listeners to this ham radio podcast will recall the intriguing story about Russell Hutchinson, Radio Boy, the American P-O-W who virtually risked his life to construct and listen to...

20160504: May 04, 2016: 5:05 am - 5:20 am

From his home studio/ham shack in suburban Chicago, Hap Holly, KC9RP, produces this 10 to 15- minute weekly amateur radio program service, featuring timely interviews, occasional thought-provoking com...

20160501: May 01, 2016: 3:30 am - 3:45 am

From his home studio/ham shack in suburban Chicago, Hap Holly, KC9RP, produces this 10 to 15- minute weekly amateur radio program service, featuring timely interviews, occasional thought-provoking com...

20160427: Apr 27, 2016: 5:05 am - 5:20 am

From his home studio/ham shack in suburban Chicago, Hap Holly, KC9RP, produces this 10 to 15- minute weekly amateur radio program service, featuring timely interviews, occasional thought-provoking com...

20160423: Apr 23, 2016: 6:30 am - 6:45 am

From his home studio/ham shack in suburban Chicago, Hap Holly, KC9RP, produces this 10 to 15- minute weekly amateur radio program service, featuring timely interviews, occasional thought-provoking com...

20160420: Apr 20, 2016: 5:05 am - 5:20 am

From his home studio/ham shack in suburban Chicago, Hap Holly, KC9RP, produces this 10 to 15- minute weekly amateur radio program service, featuring timely interviews, occasional thought-provoking com...

20160416: Apr 16, 2016: 6:30 am - 6:45 am

From his home studio/ham shack in suburban Chicago, Hap Holly, KC9RP, produces this 10 to 15- minute weekly amateur radio program service, featuring timely interviews, occasional thought-provoking com...

20160413: Apr 13, 2016: 5:05 am - 5:20 am

From his home studio/ham shack in suburban Chicago, Hap Holly, KC9RP, produces this 10 to 15- minute weekly amateur radio program service, featuring timely interviews, occasional thought-provoking com...

Art Bell: Apr 09, 2016: 6:45 am - 7am

Walk into a radio station today and you are likely to find a ham or three keeping that station on the air. Back in the 80's, an aspiring radio announcer named Art Bell/W6OBB made Okinawa his home on r...

Art Bell: Apr 02, 2016: 6:45 am - 7am

What radio broadcaster in the 1990s was heard late at night on more than 500 stations nationwide and, at its peak, boasted a listenership exceeding 15,000,000? That broadcaster is Art Bell/W6OBB. Acco...

Art Bell: Mar 29, 2016: 5:35 am - 5:50 am

What radio broadcaster in the 1990s was heard late at night on more than 500 stations nationwide and, at its peak, boasted a listenership exceeding 15,000,000? That broadcaster is Art Bell/W6OBB. Acco...

Art Bell: Mar 26, 2016: 6:30 am - 6:45 am

What radio broadcaster in the 1990s was heard late at night on more than 500 stations nationwide and, at its peak, boasted a listenership exceeding 15,000,000? That broadcaster is Art Bell/W6OBB. Acco...

Dave Bell: Mar 19, 2016: 6:30 am - 6:52 am

When is the last time you heard a truly entertaining after-dinner ham radio talk? "Your Code Record is Cracked" was delivered during the 1989 Dayton Hamvention banquet by Dave Bell/W6AQ, for years a v...

Near Vertical Incidence Skywave: Mar 05, 2016: 6:30 am - 6:45 am

N V I S - What is it? Quoting from Wikipedia: "Near vertical incidence skywave, or NVIS, is a skywave radio-wave propagation path that provides usable signals in the range between groundwave and conve...

Herb Johnson: Feb 13, 2016: 6:30 am - 6:45 am

In the early to mid 1960s the Swan company was a mainstay in ham radio with the release of single sideband mono-band transceivers like the SW120, SW140, SW175, followed by multi-band transceivers 240,...

Herb Johnson: Feb 09, 2016: 5:05 am - 5:20 am

In the early to mid 1960s the Swan company was a mainstay in ham radio with the release of single sideband mono-band transceivers like the SW120, SW140, SW175, followed by multi-band transceivers 240,...

Herb Johnson: Feb 06, 2016: 6:30 pm - 6:45 pm

In the early to mid 1960s the Swan company was a mainstay in ham radio with the release of single sideband mono-band transceivers like the SW120, SW140, SW175, followed by multi-band transceivers 240,...

Jim Shaffer: Jan 30, 2016: 6:30 am - 6:45 am

One of the major challenges blind hams face is finding an HF radio that can be operated effectively without sighted assistance. One blind ham who has taken it upon himself to change some of that is Ji...

Jim Shaffer: Jan 26, 2016: 5:05 am - 5:20 am

One of the major challenges blind hams face is finding an HF radio that can be operated effectively without sighted assistance. One blind ham who has taken it upon himself to change some of that is Ji...

Jim Shaffer: Jan 23, 2016: 6:30 pm - 7pm

One of the major challenges blind hams face is finding an HF radio that can be operated effectively without sighted assistance. One blind ham who has taken it upon himself to change some of that is Ji...

Howard Elovitz: Jan 16, 2016: 6:30 am - 6:45 am

This is a technical program Hap Holly/KC9RP produced for his RP Report, a predecessor of the RAIN Report in 1990. It's a look at the challenges that intermod created for ham radio and commercial repea...

Howard Elovitz: Jan 12, 2016: 5:05 am - 5:20 am

This is a technical program Hap Holly/KC9RP produced for his RP Report, a predecessor of the RAIN Report in 1990. It's a look at the challenges that intermod created for ham radio and commercial repea...

Bill McConnell: Jan 09, 2016: 6:30 am - 6:45 am

We start off the new year by warping back to early 1990 prior to the introduction of the RAIN Report. Before RAIN, snow Holly/KC9RP produced what he called the RP Report. Here is one of the programs C...

Bill McConnell: Jan 05, 2016: 5:05 am - 5:20 am

We start off the new year by warping back to early 1990 prior to the introduction of the RAIN Report. Before RAIN, snow Holly/KC9RP produced what he called the RP Report. Here is one of the programs C...

Aaron Collins: Jan 02, 2016: 8:20 am - 8:30 am

Assigning repeater frequencies is analogous to playing a chess game ... the frequency coordinator has to be sure that each repeater he or she assigns to repeater pair xyz isn't going to conflict with...

Aaron Collins: Dec 26, 2015: 6:30 am - 6:45 am

Assigning repeater frequencies is analogous to playing a chess game ... the frequency coordinator has to be sure that each repeater he or she assigns to repeater pair xyz isn't going to conflict with...

Aaron Collins: Dec 23, 2015: 5:05 am - 5:20 am

Assigning repeater frequencies is analogous to playing a chess game ... the frequency coordinator has to be sure that each repeater he or she assigns to repeater pair xyz isn't going to conflict with...

Mitch Schweda: Dec 19, 2015: 6:30 am - 6:45 am

This RAIN Report is dedicated to the late Mitch Schweda/WV9MJS, a long-time Chicago area ham well known for his eccentric conversations. Mitch was blind, loved mathematics and his tool collection. Mit...

Mitch Schweda: Dec 15, 2015: 5:05 am - 5:20 am

This RAIN Report is dedicated to the late Mitch Schweda/WV9MJS, a long-time Chicago area ham well known for his eccentric conversations. Mitch was blind, loved mathematics and his tool collection. Mit...

Mitch Schweda: Dec 12, 2015: 6:30 pm - 6:45 pm

This RAIN Report is dedicated to the late Mitch Schweda/WV9MJS, a long-time Chicago area ham well known for his eccentric conversations. Mitch was blind, loved mathematics and his tool collection. Mit...

Blair Alper: Dec 12, 2015: 6:30 am - 6:45 am

This week we'll endeavor to answer the question posed in 1995 by Steven Overacker/WA6HAM: Where have all the repeaters gone? As you listen to Blair Alper/KA9SEQ read this packet piece posted in 1995,...

Blair Alper: Dec 08, 2015: 5:05 am - 5:20 am

This week we'll endeavor to answer the question posed in 1995 by Steven Overacker/WA6HAM: Where have all the repeaters gone? As you listen to Blair Alper/KA9SEQ read this packet piece posted in 1995,...

Blair Alper: Dec 05, 2015: 6:30 pm - 6:45 pm

This week we'll endeavor to answer the question posed in 1995 by Steven Overacker/WA6HAM: Where have all the repeaters gone? As you listen to Blair Alper/KA9SEQ read this packet piece posted in 1995,...

John Davis: Dec 05, 2015: 6:30 am - 6:45 am

Are you digitally savvy? Or do your eyes and mind glaze over when you hear someone talking about digital modes, i.e. D Star? Well this week the RAIN Report will attempt to clear up that digital haze w...

John Davis: Dec 01, 2015: 5:05 am - 5:20 am

Are you digitally savvy? Or do your eyes and mind glaze over when you hear someone talking about digital modes, i.e. D Star? Well this week the RAIN Report will attempt to clear up that digital haze w...

Ben Kobb: Nov 28, 2015: 6:30 am - 6:45 am

In commemorating RAIN's 25th year, we're going to take you back to 1990, our first spring of production. The subject was the ECPA, Electronic Communications Privacy Act. In 1986 Congress, with some co...

Ben Kobb: Nov 24, 2015: 5:05 am - 5:20 am

In commemorating RAIN's 25th year, we're going to take you back to 1990, our first spring of production. The subject was the ECPA, Electronic Communications Privacy Act. In 1986 Congress, with some co...

Ben Kobb: Nov 21, 2015: 6:30 pm - 6:45 pm

In commemorating RAIN's 25th year, we're going to take you back to 1990, our first spring of production. The subject was the ECPA, Electronic Communications Privacy Act. In 1986 Congress, with some co...

Ron Milliman: Nov 21, 2015: 6:30 am - 6:45 am

Ron Milliman/K8HSY is a retired professor of marketing at Western Kentucky University, and a blind entrepreneur. He recently spoke to RAIN's Hap Holly/KC9RP about the challenges he faces as a small ma...

Russ Craig: Nov 07, 2015: 6:30 am - 6:45 am

This time we bring you the conclusion to our battery of facts about the reality of rechargeable batteries. This is part 2 of Hap Holly/KC9RP's interview with Russ Craig, the Marketing Director of Batt...

Jim Milner: Oct 24, 2015: 6:30 am - 6:45 am

As we go to press the call sign *T42US* is not a familiar call to many yet. But that will soon change. T42US is the call sign of a historic ham radio outreach between the United States and Cuba, comin...

Caryn Murray: Oct 17, 2015: 6:30 am - 6:45 am

When Bill Pasternak/WA6ITF became a silent key earlier this year, many speculated as to whether the Amateur Radio Newsline would continue in his absence. Speculate no more! Meet Caryn Murray/KB2GUT. M...

Caryn Murray: Oct 13, 2015: 5:05 am - 5:20 am

When Bill Pasternak/WA6ITF became a silent key earlier this year, many speculated as to whether the Amateur Radio Newsline would continue in his absence. Speculate no more! Meet Caryn Murray/KB2GUT. M...

Caryn Murray: Oct 10, 2015: 6:30 pm - 6:45 pm

When Bill Pasternak/WA6ITF became a silent key earlier this year, many speculated as to whether the Amateur Radio Newsline would continue in his absence. Speculate no more! Meet Caryn Murray/KB2GUT. M...

Rich Moseson: Oct 10, 2015: 6:30 am - 6:45 am

Arguably the most popular HF contest worldwide is coming the weekend of Oct. 23. IT's CQ World Wide, sponsored by CQ magazine. RAIN Founder/Producer, Hap Holly/KC9RP, spoke with CQ's Editor, Rich Mose...

Rich Moseson: Oct 06, 2015: 5:05 am - 5:20 am

Arguably the most popular HF contest worldwide is coming the weekend of Oct. 23. IT's CQ World Wide, sponsored by CQ magazine. RAIN Founder/Producer, Hap Holly/KC9RP, spoke with CQ's Editor, Rich Mose...

Rich Moseson: Oct 03, 2015: 6:30 pm - 6:45 pm

Arguably the most popular HF contest worldwide is coming the weekend of Oct. 23. IT's CQ World Wide, sponsored by CQ magazine. RAIN Founder/Producer, Hap Holly/KC9RP, spoke with CQ's Editor, Rich Mose...

Edward Engleman: Oct 03, 2015: 6:30 am - 6:45 am

Boys and Girls clubs were very much a part of growing up in the 60s for many of us. And a few of them actually had ham radio stations. RAIN Founder Hap Holly/KC9RP remembers spending many a summer aft...

Edward Engleman: Sep 29, 2015: 5:05 am - 5:20 am

Boys and Girls clubs were very much a part of growing up in the 60s for many of us. And a few of them actually had ham radio stations. RAIN Founder Hap Holly/KC9RP remembers spending many a summer aft...