From rural Ohio to the ISS, amateur radio connects people when all else fails, blending community, resilience and global ...

Ham radio operator Frank Krizan of Texas, who spends his summers in Scarborough, performs "Hunt and Pounce," a method of scanning the radio band for stations waiting for a turn to call them, during ...

CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) — From Morse code to voice and data, ham radios cover all modes of communication, which St. Petersburg amateur radio club member Bruce Solov says can be critical in a crisis.

There was a time when ham radio operators were known for having long conversations over the radio — rag chewing, as they called it. A new program, LongChat, is a new entry into the ham radio software ...

Two years ago, in my home state of Kentucky, we had a devastating tornado that traveled nearly 200 miles, leveled towns, killed scores of people, and left widespread devastation. When emergency ...

Sometimes things that are old become new again and ham radio is one of them that is seeing something of a resurgence. Once thought of as an arcane practice requiring stacks of devices with glowing ...

'It is nice to know it makes such a huge impact.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's been 40 years since the first astronaut ...

What are ham radios? In short, ham radio operators are amateur radio enthusiasts who communicate with one another via radio frequencies assigned specifically to this community by the Federal ...