For 100 years or so, amateur radio operators have sat in front of their radios. And the radios have been connected to their antennas directly or by physical transmission lines – coax cable, open-wire ...

Radio-minded people turn to the Internet for a variety of information and resources. Scanner listeners will find every frequency online, and shortwave buffs can find program lists and station ...

While most of you reading this have broadband in your home, there are still vast areas with little access to the Internet. Ham radio operator [emmynet] found himself in just such a situation recently, ...

Full disclosure: ham radio isn’t for everyone, and there are many different facets to it. What appeals to one person might bore another to death. One area of ham radio that has changed a lot in the ...

When Helene swept across the Southeast on Sept. 27, including Western North Carolina, cell phones and internet-based communication became unusable. People still needed a way to talk — to check on ...

You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. My trip around the world took less than an hour. Chris in Paris, France, ...

When disaster strikes and internet access is knocked out, how can you communicate? Ham radios and IP over Avian Carriers are two options. If you’re reading this, you have internet access. You probably ...

As part of his 24-hour quest to talk to as many ham radio operators as possible, Terry Hill of Vallejo finally got through to a woman deep in the Arkansas woods Saturday. “It was difficult to get ...

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.

As a card-carrying Baby Boomer, I remember when cameras had film, telephones had cords, cars had no seatbelts, and television went off the air at midnight. We used to “paste-up” this newspaper by ...

When I meet people and the subject turns to hobbies and interests, I often get puzzled looks when I mention that I do ham radio. “Do people still do that? I thought the Internet pretty much killed it ...