Lucas Adcock Staff Writer Let’s start with a vivid scenario – one which cripples the grid, extinguishing telecommunications via both landline and cell coverage. To add to the scenario, and to make it ...

Amateur radio has been around for more than 100 years and, in this day of cell phones, computers and other high-tech devices, ham radio, as it is also known, continues to play an important role in the ...

In part 1 of this series, I wrote about using the Internet to enhance traditional ham stations. In part 2, I wrote about the use of the Internet to connect to remote stations and control them. This is ...

In this day and age, there are countless methods of communication, but let's not leave radios in the past. Although smartphones offer similar functions, radios are still a trusted form of ...

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 ...

What are ham radios? In short, ham radio operators are amateur radio enthusiasts who communicate with one another via radio frequencies assigned specifically to this community by the Federal ...