When I was a kid living near Grantsville, West Virginia, some of my neighbors were into amateur ham radio. I found their analog electronics and antennas and their mastery of Morse code fascinating.

Six ham radio repeaters have been fixed inside the 1.5-km-long tunnel of the power plant to share updates to officials during ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. >> The Medical Reserve Corps of Dutchess County will offer a presentation on how to be familiar with and get involved with amateur (ham) radio at 7 p.m. Thursday, Sept. 6, at the ...

During our big fires this autumn, radio operators helped speed evacuations in Malibu and Calabasas. Numbers of FCC-licensed “ham” operators volunteer as emergency communicators when power or telephone ...

It used to be homebrew ham gear meant something simple. A couple of active devices that could send CW. Maybe a receiver with a VFO. But only the most advanced builders could tackle a wide range SSB ...

On a rainy October night during the pandemic, my husband, David, searches for a faint voice in the distance. He doesn’t know who’s calling, but he knows he wants to speak to them. David adjusts the ...

* Illinois has 20,000 ham-radio operators scattered across the state, from the big cities to the smallest towns. There are more than 660,000 hams in the United States and more than 2 million around ...

Today’s ham radio gear often has a facility for remote control, but they most often talk to a computer, not the operator. Hambone, on the other hand, acts like a ham radio robot, decoding TouchTone ...

Amateur radio fans are gearing up for some long-distance communication this month. On June 25, ham radio enthusiasts across the United States are set to participate in the annual Field Day, a 24-hour ...

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 ...

Want to talk to an astronaut in space? Thanks to the Amateur Radio on the International Space Station (ARISS) program, you may be able to. There's a ham radio on board the space station, and about 45 ...

Ham radio operators from West Bengal, Andhra Pradesh, and Telangana helped police trace an Andhra woman found in Howrah.