I was amazed when social media became a big thing. If I wanted to, I could communicate with people from around the world. However, social media was not a big deal for ham radio operators. They had ...

MARQUETTE COUNTY, Mich. (WLUC) - Communication is key when UP200 mushers race along a 228-mile track through the Upper Peninsula’s winter wilderness. Their safety is in the hands of volunteers ...

MEIGS COUNTY, Ohio (WSAZ) - With winter weather slamming much of the region, emergency officials are activating a different kind of backup — one that doesn’t rely on cell towers or Wi-Fi. It’s called ...

The fun is seeing how far you can go, the point is being ready to keep contact when an emergency strikes. Members of the Orange County Amateur Radio Club spent the weekend camped out on a Huntington ...

Most people would happily have skipped having the past weekend’s winter storm, but for amateur or “ham” radio operators, it was perfect timing. Saturday and Sunday already were scheduled as a ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Many know ham radio as a hobby — and it is — but when disaster strikes, it quickly becomes essential. “When I got the funnel cloud report, I called Wakefield directly because that’s ...

HUNTINGTON, W.Va. (WOWK) — Santa Claus is extremely busy as Christmas creeps closer, but on Saturday, he made some time to chat with kids over ham radio. The Museum of Radio and Technology and the Tri ...

Rock & Roll Hall Of Famer Joe Walsh has led a full life. Here Walsh opens up about his former days of abusing alcohol, differences playing in The Eagles and James Gang and his passion for ham radio.

The Harrison County Amateur Radio Club was fortunate to have a strong signal from the North Pole. The ham radio operators had arranged with Santa Claus to make radio contact Saturday with them in the ...

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 ...

kv4p HT is an open-source hardware VHF or UHF radio designed to plug into the USB-C port of an Android smartphone and turn it into a handheld ham radio transceiver. It’s based on an ESP32 wireless ...