When I was a kid living near Grantsville, West Virginia, some of my neighbors were into amateur ham radio. I found their analog electronics and antennas and their mastery of Morse code fascinating.

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 ...

During Tuesday’s Angelina County Commissioners Court meeting, county emergency management coordinator Ricky Conner presented a proposal to install a HAM radio system for communication when cellphone ...

Tom Beckett gestures toward a window on the third floor of the Durham County Main Library. “We’re in the middle of a geomagnetic storm,” he announces. The room chuckles. There are no swirling vortexes ...

Dejanira Okorn, right, listens as WACOM vice-president Tom Wright explains how to connect with a ham radio operator during the AARL Summer Field Day on Saturday. Some of the members of the Washington ...

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 ...

Ham radio operators from around the country will participate in a nationwide test on June 28th-29th to check their skills and equipment and keep communication lines open in the event of a power and ...

The Boulder County Fairgrounds turned into a communication hub Saturday during the Longmont Amateur Radio Club’s Summer Field Day. The annual event encourages ham radio operators to meet, practice ...

When the fire departments arrived, the building was already around 90 percent involved. There are many chemicals inside the structure due to the nature of the business. Fire officials say that there ...