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 ...

Many of today’s experienced engineers got their start in electronics through amateur, or “ham,” radio. (Many theories exist over the origin of the term “ham radio,” but there is no consensus.) Over ...

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 ...

In December 2007, hurricane-class winds pummeled the northern Oregon coast, dismantling power lines from Tillamook to Astoria, said Lynn Burrell, who works with Washington County's emergency ...

MURRAY – Cass County residents proved this past weekend that radio signals can lead to a world full of positive communication. Seventeen members of the Plattsmouth Amateur Radio Club spent Saturday ...

Jerry Williams, left, and fellow members of the Amateur Radio Klub Earl Holts and Rob Wade test their ham radio equipment in the field Saturday. As part of an annual event called “Field Day,” people ...

Bill Leahy started repairing radios and televisions when he was a kid. He went on to make a second career out of repairing ham-radio equipment and “was beyond excellent” at it, said a friend, Dennis O ...

After watching a steady stream of television coverage of the horrendous conditions victims of Hurricane Katrina endured in the deadly storm’s wake, ham radio operator Dennis Motschenbacher had had ...

NPARC – the Amateur Radio Club of the Watchung Mountain area will hold its annual auction and flea market on Friday, Feb. 22 at 7 p.m. This event will take place in the Municipal Center Gym (Academy ...