Mark and Paula Persons at their ham station. Starting in the 1920s and through the ’60s, almost every broadcast engineer was a licensed amateur radio operator. That has changed a bit, but the ...

Nowadays, you can get into ham radio on the cheap. A handheld radio can be had for less than $30, and licensing is cheap or free depending on where you live. However, like most hobbies, you tend to ...

Just when one might think there’s nothing new in the world of ham radios, along comes digital, and it’s being embraced due to its flexibility and is less bulky. Ham radio is a popular term for ...

Through Dec. 24, children can talk to Santa — all they need is access to amateur radio equipment. Children, also known as “little harmonics” in amateur radio lingo, can call “the North Pole” through ...

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 ...

Since its invention, radio has been one of the most important means of communication. Generations spent their nights listening to the news or the first programs broadcast via radio. Despite the ...

Journalist Tea Krulos joined Lake Effect's Joy Powers to share more about his piece for Milwaukee Magazine on Milwaukee's "ham radio" community. When radio first emerged, it was the Wild West of ...

NASA astronaut Mike Fincke uses the amateur radio on board the International Space Station to talk with crew at the Palmer Research Station in Antarctica in 2004. I hear static, but the voice comes ...

BOAZ, Ala. (WHNT) – The Boaz-Albertville Amateur Radio Club is set to partake in a national amateur radio exercise at Beulah Baptist Church in Boaz on June 25. The event is ARRL Field Day, which has ...

KOCHI: As Kerala prepares for the onslaught of another monsoon, ham radio operators are setting up stations at major dam sites to negate communication breakdowns in an emergency. Idukki, Mullaperiyar, ...