Francis Mahon of Port Richmond Community Emergency Response Team (CERT) displays his ham radio, a hand-held, rechargeable device that costs about $35. He provided an overview on the use of amateur ...

WISDOM, Mont. — Amateur radio operators from all over the world spent a weekend in late January making contact with each other. The real time event was a training exercise to help mitigate potential ...

Carnegie Mellon University assistant teaching professor Tom Zajdel demonstrates during a radio broadcasting class. Carnegie Mellon University first offered the Introduction to Amateur Radio course to ...

(TNS) - When wildfires, floods, tornadoes and terrorist events disrupt cellphone communication systems at the moment they are most needed, that’s when a more than 100-year-old technology still holds ...

HONOLULU (KITV4) – Amateur radio operators across the state conducted a training exercise Saturday, to ensure they are ready if an emergency were to happen or disaster strikes. Hawaii Amateur Radio ...

Amateur radio is a popular hobby and service that brings people, electronics and communication together. People use ham radio to talk across town, around the world, or even into space, all without the ...

The beginning date of the amateur (ham) radio license preparation course offered by the Yucaipa Valley Amateur Radio Club has been changed from Sept. 9 to Sept. 16 because of the El Dorado fire and ...

Jo Whitney’s interest in amateur radio was first piqued in the 1980s, when her then-boyfriend was a ham-radio operator. The boyfriend is ancient history, but she’s stuck with what’s become more than ...

LIVINGSTON — Mark Harrell, director of Homeland Security and Emergency Preparedness for Livingston Parish, has initiated the Amateur Radio Club, a group that will devote its time to ham radio ...