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

When the big one hits the Puget Sound region, one of the best technologies to rely on for communication may NOT be cell phones or computers. It could be radio. Amateur radio. The City of Seattle has ...

John Mitchell sits in front of his amateur "ham" radio setup, including a screen showing a map of the world and designated places he can reach and speak with other ham radio operators on Wednesday, ...

GULFPORT, Miss. (WLOX) - According to the American Radio Relay League, Field Day is the single most popular on-the-air event held annually in the U.S. and Canada. The point of the radio field day is ...

The Earth’s ionosphere is the ionized upper part of the atmosphere, and it’s also the most dynamic as it swells and ebbs depending on whether it’s exposed to the Sun or not. It’s the ionosphere that ...

A ham radio setup is pictured at Learned Hall on the KU campus as part of a national ham radio field day, June 26, 2010. Local amateur radio operators will be setting up temporary transmitting ...

GREENFIELD — As the rain beat down on the shelter house behind St. Michael Catholic Church on Saturday night, a few men — protected by tarps and fueled by coffee — stayed in the shelter hour after ...

OWATONNA, Minn. (AP) — Willis Yule put up a 52-foot-tall steel tower next to his house in Owatonna this spring. Yule thinks it’s beautiful. At least 61 other people in Steele County agree with him.

Longtime ham radio operator Gerald Gaule wants to spread the word that amateur radio is a great hobby for those who are blind and disabled. Gaule, who was disabled in 2007, said he worked for ...

WHITEMARSH, Pa. (CBS) -- Members of the PHIL-MONT Mobile Radio Club will gather this weekend for an Amateur Radio Field Day at Fort Washington Park in Whitemarsh. It's an opportunity for radio ...

FAMILY IN THE SUSQUEHANNA VALLEY. THIS IS WHAT’S CALLED IN A RAG CHAIR. THEY’RE JUST WITH A LANGUAGE ALL THEIR OWN. THANKS FOR THE FIVE NINE, FIVE FIVE. HAM RADIO OPERATORS WITH PEOPLE ALL OVER THE ...

Until I visited with Rod Klug, I was thinking ham radio was only for grandparents. Klug is one of the Grand Forks area members of the Amateur Radio Club that is holding a Field Day this weekend at the ...