HAM radio may seem antiquated by today's standards, but there are still plenty of good reasons to get licensed.

When Hurricane Maria toppled power lines and knocked out communication to Puerto Rico in 2017, Dennis Boyé got on his ham radio to connect with someone on the island who set up a makeshift amateur ...

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 ...

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 ...

Larry Dale of the Parkersburg Amateur Radio Klub (P.A.R.K.) and Kenny Harris of Wood County Emergency Communications (WCEC) appeared Monday before the Wood County Commission to talk about the ...

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 ...

*Refers to the latest 2 years of stltoday.com stories. Cancel anytime. Picture this: A massive tornado touches down in Jefferson County, whipping its way through Cedar Hill, Hillsboro, Festus and ...

If, or when, a big earthquake hits our area, what happens if our cell phones and modern communications go down? It turns out emergency managers would rely on a volunteer network of amateur or ham ...

Amateur radio operators will demonstrate their emergency communication skills in Poway during an ARRL Field Day over the weekend of June 28-29. The 24-hour event starts at 11 a.m. Saturday, June 28 ...

Larry Dale of the Parkersburg Amateur Radio Klub that set up at the cabin at Fort Boreman Park during the American Radio Relay League Field Day on Sunday. Amateur radio operators nationwide ...

SHAFTSBURY — Ham radio operators from the Southern Vermont Amateur Radio Club (SOVARC) and the Greater Bennington County Area will be participating in a national amateur radio exercise from 2 p.m. on ...