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

With all the changes and advancements in technology, it is remarkable to see one particular hobby last more than 100 years even in times of trouble. That’s amateur radio. From his home in Punta Gorda, ...

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 ...

As the world adjusts to a new era of rising temperatures and more severe weather-related disasters, governments across Canada have been turning to a decidedly old-school form of communication: the ham ...

What if you could broadcast signals across the globe using just a credit-card-sized computer and a handful of components? It might sound like a scene from a sci-fi novel, but with a Raspberry Pi and ...

That name stuck, and like thousands of woodpeckers, ham radio operators on spark-gap transmitters tapped out everything from weather to mom's recipe for apple pie until the technology improved to ...

Santa took some time out of his busy schedule to talk to kids over ham radio at the Museum of Radio and Technology.

Two years ago, in my home state of Kentucky, we had a devastating tornado that traveled nearly 200 miles, leveled towns, killed scores of people, and left widespread devastation. When emergency ...

Dogs bay at it. Lovers swoon under it. And some people like to bounce their voices off it. The first two are easy, but sending a voice signal 239,200 miles to the moon and back is not quite as simple.