that traveled nearly 200 miles, leveled towns, killed scores of people, and left widespread devastation. When emergency responders started hitting the scene, they heard amateur (ham) radio operators ...

Recent changes in licensing rules that will no longer require knowing Morse Code will open long-distance ham-radio frequencies to more people by the end of this month, they said. The code requirement ...

There are two ways to deal with improving ham radio receivers, or — for that matter — any sort of receiver. You can filter and modify the radio frequency including the radio’s intermediate frequency, ...

Long before the Internet allowed people from far-reaching corners of the world to meet and converse, there was amateur radio, often called ham radio. Using various frequencies of radio transmitters - ...

Rick Bressler leaned over a laptop with flashing radio frequencies and a list of communications with far-flung countries — Wales, Bosnia-Herzegovina and dozens of others — his ham radio setup in ...

(TNS) - A scrambled voice fills the room sounding like someone trying to talk under water intermixed with variable modulated frequency sounds one might hear from a music keyboard synthesizer. A person ...

SUMTER (AP) — When Hurricane Hugo devastated South Carolina in 1989, emergency personnel turned to ham radio operators to stay in touch with isolated communities and the outside world. It is a ...

It was a recent rainy Saturday morning in Hickory Hill Park, a beautiful 185-acre tract of public land tucked next to St. Joseph’s Cemetery in Iowa City. Members of the Iowa City Amateur Radio Club ...