Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. It may be a hobby to amateur radio enthusiasts, but their hobby sometimes has helped save lives, especially during natural ...

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 ...

Jun. 29—A group of local ham radio operators showed last weekend that when all else fails, they'll be able to communicate with others around the world. The Vm Okla Nan Ola Amateur Radio Club, based in ...

FREEPORT — On any given day, John Mitchell sits in front of his amateur ham radio set up in his home, stares up at a video screen showing all the places where he could have a conversation with someone ...

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 ...

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 ...

Readers of Design News come from many areas of expertise and we all have one thing in common –- we all love innovation. We are made to create and as we see on Design News, that creativity takes many ...

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 ...

Members of the Poway Amateur Radio Society participated in a demonstration of ham radio during the ARRL Field Day event held June 27-28. ARRL stands for The American Radio Relay League, Inc., which is ...

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 ...