Long before pixels and cell towers, there were dots and dashes. Morse Code was the complicated mainstay communication of choice practically from the day Samuel Morse started clicking his prized ...

Jim Charlong works his Morse code key. All photos courtesy of Parks Canada. GLACE BAY, Nova Scotia — On Dec.17, 1902, from the seaside Table Head radio station at Glace Bay, Nova Scotia, Guglielmo ...

WILMINGTON, N.C. - Dots and dashes darted through the airwaves long before text or instant messages, even before e-mail, cell phones or telephone lines. While these new forms of communication ...

Many of today’s experienced engineers got their start in electronics through amateur, or “ham,” radio. (Many theories exist over the origin of the term “ham radio,” but there is no consensus.) Over ...

WINCHESTER — Tim Angell twists a dial on his thick, black Yaesu radio, and hears a hiss, a crackle and a tone rising and falling like a slide whistle. He twists again, and the radio spits out rapid ...

It’s like something out of a war story from the past — a man sends Morse code messages to let people know he’s alive in the worst of times. It wasn’t years ago though. It was just under a month ago, ...

MILWAUKEE—Long ago, before Facebook, Twitter and email, ham radio operators were the original social media geeks. And they’re still out there, in greater numbers than ever, chatting and messaging each ...

"This is KD4DYV," I said, announcing my ham-radio call sign for the first time in twenty years. "Can anyone hear me?" Static. I fiddled with my handheld radio, an old Icom IC-W2A, and tried again.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. In a world where iPhones enable Internet searches from any location with a good cell signal, ...

Several of the authors you read on Hackaday are ham radio operators and we’ve often kicked around having a Hacker Chat about “Why be a ham today?” After all, you can talk to anyone in the world over ...

With telephones down and wireless service disrupted, at least one group of people did manage last week to use technology to come to the rescue of those in need. Often unsung, amateur radio operators ...

FAMILY IN THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. THIS IS WHAT’S CALLED IN A RAG CHAIR. THEY’RE JUST WITH A LANGUAGE ALL THEIR OWN. THANKS FOR THE FIVE NINE, FIVE FIVE. HAM RADIO OPERATORS WITH PEOPLE ALL OVER THE ...