Amateur Radio brings people together across the airwaves. Known as ham radio, it’s a way to communicate with others — just across town or even across the globe — without internet or cell phones. This ...

The Humboldt Amateur Radio Club is offering a class to prepare students for the Amateur Radio Technician Class license examination. The Technician Class license is the entry-level license for amateur ...

Amateur radio has been around for more than 100 years and, in this day of cell phones, computers and other high-tech devices, ham radio, as it is also known, continues to play an important role in the ...

ROCKFORD, Ill. (WTVO) — Amateur radio operators from around the country will participate in a nationwide test on Saturday. In the event of a power and cell tower outage, ham radio becomes an efficient ...

A Fond du Lac seventh grader wowed the local amateur radio club recently by acing his test for a ham radio license. Test takers must show understanding of electronics and know the federal radio ...

LAKE CHARLES, La. (KPLC) - HAM radio operators have a long history of serving the community when storms or other disasters damage communication infrastructure like cell towers. This weekend, area ...

Today we start a new series dedicated to amateur radio for cheapskates. Ham radio has a reputation as a “rich old guy” hobby, a reputation that it probably deserves to some degree. Pick up a glossy ...

HUNTINGTON — Examinations to earn a new or upgraded Amateur Radio “Ham” License from the Federal Communications Commission will be begin at 9 a.m. Saturday, June 14, at the Museum of Radio and ...

POUGHKEEPSIE, N.Y. — Dutchess County is set to host an amateur, or ham radio, licensing exam on Sunday, Oct. 6, according to an announcement. The exam, conducted in partnership with the Mount Beacon ...

My amateur radio journey began back in the mid-1970s. I was about 12 at the time, with an interest in electronics that baffled my parents. With little to guide me and fear for my life as I routinely ...

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 ...