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 ...

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 ...

In this day and age, there are countless methods of communication, but let's not leave radios in the past. Although smartphones offer similar functions, radios are still a trusted form of ...

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 ...

Ready to upgrade your technician amateur radio license to the next level? Licensed, experienced ham radio operators from the Midland Amateur Radio Club are organizing an Amateur Radio General License ...

My amateur radio journey began back in the mid-1970s. I was about 12 at the time, with an interest in electronics that baffled my parents. With little to guide me and fear for my life as I routinely ...

Radios and walkie-talkies may seem like relics from your childhood, but nothing can quite compare to the convenience and simplicity of a pair of two-way radios. The freedom from reliance on a cellular ...

Eight years ago, amateur radio enthusiast and ham-radio operator Bill LaMay wondered who might be the patron saint of amateur radio. He began searching the internet for some answer since the field of ...

I was disheartened to read Burt Fisher’s disparaging comments on amateur radio in the March 16 Opinion section. As an active member of the ham radio community and president of my local amateur radio ...

Would not massively deplete IPv6, might challenge internet governance Early in the history of the internet, the powers that be granted amateur radio operators over 16 million IPv4 addresses. Now a ...

'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 ...