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

Once upon a time, ham radio was all about CW and voice transmissions and little else. These days, the hobby is altogether richer, with a wide range of fancy digital data modes to play with. [KM6LYW ...

Around 300 enthusiasts, from students to longtime professionals, attended the 27th annual event at LIU Brookville Saturday.

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 ...

In this day and age, there are countless methods of communication, but let's not leave radios in the past. Although smartphones offer similar functions, radios are still a trusted form of ...

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 ...

Mark and Paula Persons at their ham station. Starting in the 1920s and through the ’60s, almost every broadcast engineer was a licensed amateur radio operator. That has changed a bit, but the ...

In an era of instant and constant communication, whether it be texting, Facebook messaging, Tweeting, Instagramming, emailing, Skyping, whatever, Joe Huie leaves the new technology behind for about an ...

Gaston County resident Oscar Norris, also known by his call sign W4OXH, is turning 106 on Sept. 25. Norris is not only the oldest living amateur radio operator in North Carolina, but according to ...

Ham radio operators from around the country will participate in a nationwide test on June 28th-29th to check their skills and equipment and keep communication lines open in the event of a power and ...

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 ...