Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Mitchell sits in front of his amateur "ham" radio setup, including a screen showing a map of the world and designated places ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Just when one might think there’s nothing new in the world of ham radios, along comes digital, and it’s being embraced due to its ...

Members of the Poway Amateur Radio Society participated in a demonstration of ham radio during the ARRL Field Day event held ...

It is popular to blame new technology for killing things. The Internet killed newspapers. Video killed the radio star. Is FT8, a new digital technology, poised to kill off ham radio? The community ...

When the big one hits the Puget Sound region, one of the best technologies to rely on for communication may NOT be cell phones or computers. It could be radio. Amateur radio. The City of Seattle has ...

The Carbon County Amateur Radio Club held its annual Ham Radio Field Day recently at Penn Forest Township Recreational Park. Amateur radio operators were called “hams” as early as 1914 when the ...

After watching a steady stream of television coverage of the horrendous conditions victims of Hurricane Katrina endured in the deadly storm’s wake, ham radio operator Dennis Motschenbacher had had ...

BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. — One group already is preparing to help in case a tropical storm takes down communications during this hurricane season. "Many of our folks, when there's problems, they grab ...

The Earth’s ionosphere is the ionized upper part of the atmosphere, and it’s also the most dynamic as it swells and ebbs depending on whether it’s exposed to the Sun or not. It’s the ionosphere that ...

In the days after the worst storm in three generations hit the American island – and for many more to come – public electrical, land-line and cellular communication systems showed few signs of life.

As phone lines were jammed and the internet went down in Nepal after last April’s earthquake, the only way Manju Sunar could find out if her daughter was safe was to ask an amateur radio operator in ...

Any licensed ham radio operator in the Carolinas, and across the country for that matter, likely knows the name of 99-year-old Oscar Norris. Norris, who lives in Gastonia, first became a ham radio ...