If there’s ever an emergency in Ramona, a good person to call on is Stephen Stipp, president of the Ramona Outback Amateur Radio Society (ROARS). Not only does Stipp know the lay of the land as a ...

Two years ago, in my home state of Kentucky, we had a devastating tornado that traveled nearly 200 miles, leveled towns, killed scores of people, and left widespread devastation. When emergency ...

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 ...

When I was a kid living near Grantsville, West Virginia, some of my neighbors were into amateur ham radio. I found their analog electronics and antennas and their mastery of Morse code fascinating.

For Vietnam veteran John Nugent, who served in the U.S. Army Signal Corps, coming home to Newburgh, N.Y., meant some isolation, according to his son Chris, but his love of ham radio allowed him to ...

Eight years ago, amateur radio enthusiast and ham-radio operator Bill LaMay wondered who might be the patron saint of amateur radio. He began searching the internet for some answer since the field of ...

'It is nice to know it makes such a huge impact.' When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. It's been 40 years since the first astronaut ...