that traveled nearly 200 miles, leveled towns, killed scores of people, and left widespread devastation. When emergency responders started hitting the scene, they heard amateur (ham) radio operators ...

When you can’t hop on your cellphone, they’ll be able to tune in other operators across the globe and keep lines of ...

Joe Barnhart with the Meigs County Auxiliary Communications said it takes a team to be prepared.

Ham radio operator Frank Krizan of Texas, who spends his summers in Scarborough, performs "Hunt and Pounce," a method of scanning the radio band for stations waiting for a turn to call them, during ...

Even if you are relatively young, you can probably think back on what TV was like when you were a kid and then realize that TV today is completely different. Most people watch on-demand. Saturday ...

Some amateur radio operators this past weekend took part in an annual, nationwide Winter Field Day aimed to test their ...

There was a time when ham radio operators were known for having long conversations over the radio — rag chewing, as they called it. A new program, LongChat, is a new entry into the ham radio software ...

Tom Dawson squeezes into a chair jammed between five computer screens and shelves of gadgets in a cramped room of his house, turns on a ham radio transceiver and searches the airwaves for company. He ...

Rick Bressler leaned over a laptop with flashing radio frequencies and a list of communications with far-flung countries — Wales, Bosnia-Herzegovina and dozens of others — his ham radio setup in ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) — Communication is key when it comes to how state officials respond during emergencies like this ...

When Hurricane Maria toppled power lines and knocked out communication to Puerto Rico in 2017, Dennis Boyé got on his ham radio to connect with someone on the island who set up a makeshift amateur ...