When the big one hits the Puget Sound region, one of the best technologies to rely on for communication may NOT be cell phones or computers. It could be radio. Amateur radio. The City of Seattle has ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Feb. 27—After two recent deaths, Chattanooga-area ham radio operators decided to close ranks. Many of the amateur radio hobbyists ...

Jul. 2—FAIRMONT — 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 ...

The Earth’s ionosphere is the ionized upper part of the atmosphere, and it’s also the most dynamic as it swells and ebbs depending on whether it’s exposed to the Sun or not. It’s the ionosphere that ...

Amateur radio operator Roslyn Gannis, 14, of Slocum Township, talks to a contact during the 24-hour, on-air event at Moon Lake Park, Sunday. Don Carey/the times leader Amateur radio operator Bob ...

Jun. 24—BLUEFIELD — Local ham radio operators will be participating this weekend in a national amateur radio exercise, ARRL Field Day, an annual amateur radio activity organized since 1933 by ARRL, ...

From left, Jerry Williams, Earl Hulce and Rob Wade of the Parkersburg Amateur Radio Klub test ham radio equipment in the field during an American Radio Relay League Field Day. The club will activate a ...

As Duluth amateur radio operator Doug Nelson, AA0AW, tapped the keys, it was like picking the lock on communication history and slipping inside. Nelson, 55, contacted W8BM in Ohio early Sunday morning ...

Immediately after the Jan. 12 earthquake in Haiti that killed 230,000 people, injured an estimated 300,000 more and destroyed much of Port-au-Prince, medical teams from the University of Miami Project ...