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 ...

It won’t turn a $30 handheld into a satellite phone, but it opens a surprisingly useful world of radio communication ...

It has been a busy past few weeks for the Highland Amateur Radio Association with the highlight of the amateur radio summer and other related events yet to come. The season started with their April ...

Many of today’s experienced engineers got their start in electronics through amateur, or “ham,” radio. (Many theories exist over the origin of the term “ham radio,” but there is no consensus.) Over ...

SEOUL — Ham radios once played a key role in the operations of the U.S. military before fading into the background with the arrival of better and more accessible forms of communication like cell ...

While M17 might sound like a new kind of automatic rifle (as actually, it is), we were referring to an open source project to create a ham radio transceiver. Instead of paraphrasing the project’s ...

Get unlimited access to ad-free articles and exclusive content. The newest trend in American communication isn't another smartphone from Apple or Google but one of the elder statesmen of communication ...

Dejanira Okorn, right, listens as WACOM vice-president Tom Wright explains how to connect with a ham radio operator during the AARL Summer Field Day on Saturday. Some of the members of the Washington ...

Did you ever have a ham radio when you were a kid? Or see Contact? If not, this is a reminder that it's "the licensed and private use of designated radio bands, for purposes of private recreation, non ...

But it would be as “compleatly” off the mark to explain ham radio by its vestigial utility as it would have been for Izaak ...

HARTFORD, Conn. (AP) -- When technology failed on a massive scale last week, some old-fashioned broadcasting stepped into the breach as ham radio operators took to the airwaves to reach emergency ...

A prior version of this story stated incorrectly that “the higher the frequency, the shorter the wavelength, and the farther signals can travel.” It has been corrected as follows: “Such shortwave ...