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 ...

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 ...

Through Dec. 24, children can talk to Santa — all they need is access to amateur radio equipment. Children, also known as “little harmonics” in amateur radio lingo, can call “the North Pole” through ...

In the 1950s, Sen. Joseph McCarthy added amateur radio operators to his pool of possible subversives. “Hams,” he said, had “tremendous potential for passing out improper information for espionage.” ...

Amateur radio is a hobby that is often thought of as being exclusive to those with a healthy expendable income. In recent years however, the tides have turned. Cheap microcontrollers and signal ...

To the extent that you have an opinion on something like high-frequency (HF) radio, you probably associate it with amateur radio operators, hunched over their gear late at night as they try to make ...

Follow-on delivery order supports Marine Corps’ HFR II program of record Resilient capabilities enable command and control in contested environments Meets NSA crypto-modernization standards for secure ...

As cyber threats continue to grow, so does the reality that digital satellite communications can be degraded and denied either through digital or electromagnetic means. If these capabilities are ...

Pvt. Grant Aubuchon reports to his squad leader using a high-frequency Manpack radio as his squad prepares for an ambush during Iron Focus 18.1 field training exercise March 20, 2018. (Sgt. John ...

A scout in Tobago uses a Barrett Communications high-frequency radio. (Photo provided by TEMA.) The disaster management agency in the Caribbean island nation of Tobago is bolstering its emergency ...