Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Mitchell sits in front of his amateur "ham" radio setup, including a screen showing a map of the world and designated places ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Members of the Poway Amateur Radio Society participated in a demonstration of ham radio during the ARRL Field Day event held June 27-28.

In the days after the worst storm in three generations hit the American island – and for many more to come – public electrical, land-line and cellular communication systems showed few signs of life.

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 ...