From rural Ohio to the ISS, amateur radio connects people when all else fails, blending community, resilience and global ...

Jan. 29—Amateur radio, or ham radio, has been a popular hobby throughout the years as well as an important service that brings people, electronics and communication together. People are able to use ...

Amateur radio is a popular hobby and service that brings people, electronics and communication together. People use ham radio to talk across town, around the world, or even into space, all without 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 ...

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 ...

The carnage left in the wake of Hurricane Helene has reinforced the importance of one of the oldest forms of communication technology still in widespread use: Ham radio, officially called amateur ...

In an emergency, an amateur radio operator can work almost anywhere, as Dave Spearing of Portage shows Saturday at Firemen's Park in Rio. During the amateur radio field day, Spearing talked with radio ...