When the big one hits the Puget Sound region, one of the best technologies to rely on for communication may NOT be cell phones or computers. It could be radio. Amateur radio. The City of Seattle has ...

Jul. 2—FAIRMONT — Thirteen-year-old Michael Brickey has vivid memories of descending the stairs to watch his grandfather work his ham radio equipment. "I remember, I was 6 or 7, and I walked ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 27—After two recent deaths, Chattanooga-area ham radio operators decided to close ranks. Many of the amateur radio hobbyists ...

Jun. 24—BLUEFIELD — Local ham radio operators will be participating this weekend in a national amateur radio exercise, ARRL Field Day, an annual amateur radio activity organized since 1933 by ARRL, ...

A team of amateur ham radio operators have detected a strange radio signal in Persian that has subsequently been traced back ...

Amateur radio operator Roslyn Gannis, 14, of Slocum Township, talks to a contact during the 24-hour, on-air event at Moon Lake Park, Sunday. Don Carey/the times leader Amateur radio operator Bob ...

For twenty-four hours over the weekend of June 27 and 28, 2020, thousands of amateur radio operators across the United States and Canada set up temporary emergency communications centers where ...

From left, Jerry Williams, Earl Hulce and Rob Wade of the Parkersburg Amateur Radio Klub test ham radio equipment in the field during an American Radio Relay League Field Day. The club will activate a ...

Immediately after the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti that killed 230,000 people, injured an estimated 300,000 more and destroyed much of Port-au-Prince, medical teams from the University of Miami Project ...

As the world adjusts to a new era of rising temperatures and more severe weather-related disasters, governments across Canada have been turning to a decidedly old-school form of communication: the ham ...

Officially, ham radio refers to the use of the amateur radio frequency spectrum by enthusiasts for non-commercial exchange of messages, wireless experimentation, self-training, private recreation, ...

Learn how Ham operators help in time of disaster at the Santa Barbara Amateur Radio Club field days, weekend of June 22-23. (Courtesy photo) Despite the ubiquity of internet-enabled cell phones, email ...