that traveled nearly 200 miles, leveled towns, killed scores of people, and left widespread devastation. When emergency responders started hitting the scene, they heard amateur (ham) radio operators ...

Kit building can be a good way to provide yourself with a ham radio rig. It’s not for everyone, however, and you should think over the following points before you commit yourself. Labor: For a ...

Jim Scott, of Hartstown, Crawford County, is an award-winning ham radio operator. He’s communicated with fellow operators in every country of the world.

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Members of the Bluegrass Amateur Radio Society tested their Ham radio equipment at Kentucky Horse Park on Saturday. Ham radio is a form of communication that can be used ...

The international space station also happens to be the world’s highest radio station — and now the groundwork is being laid for direct transmission of pictures as well as sound between Earth and outer ...

When I was a kid living near Grantsville, West Virginia, some of my neighbors were into amateur ham radio. I found their analog electronics and antennas and their mastery of Morse code fascinating.

After watching a steady stream of television coverage of the horrendous conditions victims of Hurricane Katrina endured in the deadly storm’s wake, ham radio operator Dennis Motschenbacher had had ...

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A housewife in North Carolina makes friends over the radio with another ham in Lithuania. An Ohio teenager uses his computer to upload a digital chess move to an orbiting space satellite, where it's ...

What do science, public service, and emergency communication have in common? They are all associated with ham radio or amateur radio. There are more than 3 million ham radio operators across the globe ...

FAIRMONT, W.Va. — Thirteen-year-old Michael Brickey has vivid memories of descending the stairs to watch his grandfather work his ham radio equipment. “I remember, I was 6 or 7, and I walked ...

Volunteer ham radio operators are coming to the aid of relief agencies and emergency officials to help with badly needed communications in areas of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi ravaged early ...