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 ...

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 ...

LEXINGTON, Ky. (WKYT) - Members of the Bluegrass Amateur Radio Society tested their Ham radio equipment at Kentucky Horse Park on Saturday. Ham radio is a form of communication that can be used ...

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 ...

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 ...

The tragic events of Sept. 11, 2001, and Hurricane Katrina in 2005 highlighted two phenomena common in disasters: Network communications tower sites were destroyed, and network traffic overwhelmed ...

Geek Life: Fun stories, memes, humor and other random items at the intersection of tech, science, business and culture. SEE MORE by Tony Lystra on Sep 5, 2022 at 7:00 am September 9, 2022 at 7:48 am ...

"This is KD4DYV," I said, announcing my ham-radio call sign for the first time in twenty years. "Can anyone hear me?" Static. I fiddled with my handheld radio, an old Icom IC-W2A, and tried again.

A housewife in North Carolina makes friends over the radio with another ham in Lithuania. An Ohio teenager uses his computer to upload a digital chess move to an orbiting space satellite, where it's ...

I figure hey, we're all nerds! I have no doubt someone else here is into Ham radio. My dad gave me all of his ham gear, and I mean all of it. I'm working on my Technician license, and honestly the ...

As the storm pounds Jamaica with dangerous winds and torrential rain, some in the Triad are doing what they can to help from hundreds of miles away.

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