GAINESVILLE, Fla. – Get ready to enter the exciting world of local and worldwide personal radio communications in Amateur Radio! Our local EOC-affiliated ham radio club is opening up a 13-week ...

Amateur radio has been around for more than 100 years and, in this day of cell phones, computers and other high-tech devices, ham radio, as it is also known, continues to play an important role in the ...

Are you interested in becoming a ham radio operator or upgrading your ham radio license class? Mississippi State's W5YD Amateur Radio Club is hosting a testing session to help those interested in ...

Amateur radio is a popular hobby and service that brings people, electronics and communication together. People use ham radio to talk across town, around the world, or even into space, all without the ...

In the Midland community, as well as around the world, an army of faceless voices helps connect the pieces and share information behind the scenes of disasters. These same voices make friends all over ...

You don’t have to be a rocket scientist to get a ham radio license, but it doesn’t hurt if your dad is one. That’s the case for Milo Dantowitz, a 7-year-old first grader who attends the Dexter ...

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 ...

Today we start a new series dedicated to amateur radio for cheapskates. Ham radio has a reputation as a “rich old guy” hobby, a reputation that it probably deserves to some degree. Pick up a glossy ...

Mark and Paula Persons at their ham station. Starting in the 1920s and through the ’60s, almost every broadcast engineer was a licensed amateur radio operator. That has changed a bit, but the ...

When southwest resident Dan Connell describes his son Zorion as “sporadic and chatty,” it’s not an exaggeration. One minute the 8-year-old is conversing about Legos and toy guns, and the next he’s ...

BURLINGTON, Ia. – In comfortable basement rooms, surrounded by dials, buttons and knobs, Sam Burrell and Mike Rosenblatt each has the world as his fingertips. Literally. Using radio waves bounced off ...