Every year, thousands of amateur radio enthusiasts travel to Greene County for one of the world’s largest gatherings of its kind.

The Wellesley Amateur Radio Society has been active since its founding in 1951 as part of the nation's civil defense strategy. With more than 50 members, the club promotes amateur radio through ...

MEIGS COUNTY, Ohio (WSAZ) - With winter weather slamming much of the region, emergency officials are activating a different kind of backup — one that doesn’t rely on cell towers or Wi-Fi. It’s called ...

The fun is seeing how far you can go, the point is being ready to keep contact when an emergency strikes. Members of the Orange County Amateur Radio Club spent the weekend camped out on a Huntington ...

NORFOLK, Va. — Many know ham radio as a hobby — and it is — but when disaster strikes, it quickly becomes essential. “When I got the funnel cloud report, I called Wakefield directly because that’s ...

Amid claims of China sabotaging Taiwan's undersea internet cables, some citizens are learning how to send and receive their own emergency communications. In Taiwan, a nonprofit civil defense group, ...

Rock & Roll Hall Of Famer Joe Walsh has led a full life. Here Walsh opens up about his former days of abusing alcohol, differences playing in The Eagles and James Gang and his passion for ham radio.

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 ...

Can you chip in? The Internet Archive is introducing peer-to-peer (P2P) fundraising —a giving platform that allows individual supporters to host personalized campaigns to fundraise for the Internet ...

What if you could broadcast signals across the globe using just a credit-card-sized computer and a handful of components? It might sound like a scene from a sci-fi novel, but with a Raspberry Pi and ...

It’s a hobby with a responsibility. That’s how the 80 members of the Steel City Amateur Radio Club in Collier view the skill, science and enjoyment of participating in ham radio. “It’s a fun place to ...

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 ...