Some amateur radio operators this past weekend took part in an annual, nationwide Winter Field Day aimed to test their ...

The local Alachua County Emergency Management-affiliated ham radio team earned a high ranking in the annual Winter Field Day ...

Over the weekend, West Virginia's Emergency Management Division amateur radio club hit airwaves to help emergency management ...

When you can’t hop on your cellphone, they’ll be able to tune in other operators across the globe and keep lines of ...

The West Virginia Emergency Management Division showcased Wednesday how it uses ham radio to communicate with amateur radio ...

MILWAUKEE—Long ago, before Facebook, Twitter and email, ham radio operators were the original social media geeks. And they’re still out there, in greater numbers than ever, chatting and messaging each ...

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 ...

It is popular to blame new technology for killing things. The Internet killed newspapers. Video killed the radio star. Is FT8, a new digital technology, poised to kill off ham radio? The community ...

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 ...

The society originated from local "hams" who provided backup communications for Wellesley during World War II. A vibrant amateur radio club has been serving Wellesley and surrounding areas since 1951.

Only a few years ago, blogs listed ham radio alongside 35 mm film and VHS tape as technologies slated to disappear. They were wrong. Nearly 700,000 Americans have ham radio licenses — up 60 percent ...

CHARLESTON, W.Va. (WOWK) — Communication is key when it comes to how state officials respond during emergencies like this ...