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 ...

Dr. Nathaniel Frissell with students Veronica Romanek and Simal Sami at the University of Scranton W3USR ham radio station. Credit: Byron Maldonado While people across the country don eclipse glasses ...

WINCHESTER — Tim Angell twists a dial on his thick, black Yaesu radio, and hears a hiss, a crackle and a tone rising and falling like a slide whistle. He twists again, and the radio spits out rapid ...

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 ...

MIDDLETON — North Shore ham radio enthusiasts took part in a world-wide amateur radio field day last weekend to learn how to use the technology during emergencies and connect with others around the ...

What if you could broadcast signals across the globe using just a credit-card-sized computer and a handful of components? It might sound like a scene from a sci-fi novel, but with a Raspberry Pi and ...

For those who grew up with a cell phone in their hand, it might be difficult to imagine a time where the phone wasn’t fully integrated with voicemail. It sounds like a fantastical past, yet at one ...

'It is nice to know it makes such a huge impact.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's been 40 years since the first astronaut ...

Back in the 1960’s, the entry level amateur radio license was called the novice license. To earn this license, you needed to learn the Morse code and be able to send and receive Morse code messages at ...