Ham radio operators from Portage County Amateur Radio Service will be participating in a national amateur radio exercise this weekend and the public is invited. The American Radio Relay League Field ...

Once upon a time, ham radio was all about CW and voice transmissions and little else. These days, the hobby is altogether richer, with a wide range of fancy digital data modes to play with. [KM6LYW ...

Rocker Joe Walsh has led a full life. Here, he opens up about his days of alcohol abuse, differences playing in The Eagles ...

An example of a radio set-up from the 1960s along with a telegraph key and amateur radio guide booklet. (Photo by Amber Phipps) VIENNA — World Amateur Radio Day is celebrated on April 18 to recognize ...

The National Park Service turns 100 this year and amateur radio operators will be celebrating in a big way, according to a press release from the West Virginia Amateur Radio Operators Association.

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

While M17 might sound like a new kind of automatic rifle (as actually, it is), we were referring to an open source project to create a ham radio transceiver. Instead of paraphrasing the project’s ...

The sound of Michael Jackson’s “Thriller” filled the conference room at the National Weather Service Office in North Platte on Dec. 4. Meteorologist Bill Taylor laughed and shook his head before ...

A prior version of this story stated incorrectly that “the higher the frequency, the shorter the wavelength, and the farther signals can travel.” It has been corrected as follows: “Such shortwave ...

A world with no internet or cellular service is almost unimaginable in the dawn of the digital age. But given the unforeseen circumstances of any natural disaster, it’s important to know about other ...