HAM radio may seem antiquated by today's standards, but there are still plenty of good reasons to get licensed.

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 ...

One problem with ham radio these days is that most hams live where you can’t put a big old antenna up due to city laws and homeowner covenants. If you’re just working local stations on VHF or UHF, ...

Many of today’s experienced engineers got their start in electronics through amateur, or “ham,” radio. (Many theories exist over the origin of the term “ham radio,” but there is no consensus.) Over ...

Well before the days of the tweet and the status update, people communicated with each other over sweeping distances by quite literally harnessing the earth's magnetic field to send messages via radio ...

One experimental station, WK2XJK, is operated by Rockland Wireless and has its antenna on the Armstrong Tower in Alpine, N.J.

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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 ...

JEROME• A bunch of boys huddled around an electronic device might hint at an Xbox, Sony Playstation or Nintendo as the center of attention. But it wasn’t video gaming that brought dozens of Scouts to ...

A scout in Tobago uses a Barrett Communications high-frequency radio. (Photo provided by TEMA.) The disaster management agency in the Caribbean island nation of Tobago is bolstering its emergency ...