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

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

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 ...

A group of hobbyists who have become experts in a low-tech form of communication are now a vital link helping local first responders in the event of a worst-case scenario. Bruce Wolfe likes to spend ...

COLUMBIA - This year's amateur radio field day kicks off at 1 pm Saturday. The Central Missouri Radio Association will participate in the national event highlighting radio communications in remote ...

The dusty vacuum tubes, resistors, capacitors and coils dated back to another age of communications, but the attendees of the Virginia Beach Hamfest earlier this month maintain radio is as relevant in ...

If anyone thinks ham radio is outdated, think again. When a 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked Haiti in January and knocked out most communications — even cell phones — ham radio operators were able to ...

Residents interested in amateur radio, emergency communications or community service will have an opportunity to earn their ham radio technician license during a two-day class later this month in ...

Staff photo / Bob Coupland Frank Sole of Poland, left, and Andrew Brincko of Youngstown, who are both ham radio operators, look over material on the May 31, 1985, tornado during which they both helped ...

The ham radio operators who brought their equipment to a downtown Babylon village parking lot on Saturday were there in part to do what they often do from home: communicate with fellow amateur-radio ...

A couple years ago, designer Roger Bova stumbled upon a stack of QSL cards at an upstate New York vintage shop and was immediately struck by their visual character. “I love that everything on these ...