Long before pixels and cell towers, there were dots and dashes. Morse Code was the complicated mainstay communication of choice practically from the day Samuel Morse started clicking his prized ...

BIRMINGHAM, Alabama -- An amateur radio club dedicated to helping maintain contact between Alabama hospitals and the outside world when all other forms of communication fail is about to end its first ...

There was a time when ham radio operators were known for having long conversations over the radio — rag chewing, as they called it. A new program, LongChat, is a new entry into the ham radio software ...

The Amateur Radio Emergency Services radio room at the Santa Barbara County Emergency Operations Center in Santa Barbara allows operators to communicate with Lompoc, Santa Maria and the Santa Ynez ...

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 ...

After 34 years tuning in to voices around the world in an amateur radio room aboard the Queen Mary, Nate Brightman is finally ready to retire. On Wednesday the Long Beach resident celebrated his 96th ...

BURLINGTON, Ia. – In comfortable basement rooms, surrounded by dials, buttons and knobs, Sam Burrell and Mike Rosenblatt each has the world as his fingertips. Literally. Using radio waves bounced off ...

ALLOUEZ, Mich. – At first glance, the excitement of the ham radio contest that William LaBell was taking part in wasn’t obvious. There was much attentive sitting. The occasional twist of a knob. A bit ...

Jo Whitney’s interest in amateur radio was first piqued in the 1980s, when her then-boyfriend was a ham-radio operator. The boyfriend is ancient history, but she’s stuck with what’s become more than ...

Years ago, ham radio operators more often than not had land, and usually there weren’t any restrictions on what kind of antenna they could erect on that land. These days you are more likely to live ...

Radios and walkie-talkies may seem like relics from your childhood, but nothing can quite compare to the convenience and simplicity of a pair of two-way radios. The freedom from reliance on a cellular ...