The newest trend in American communication isn't another smartphone from Apple or Google but one of the elder statesmen of communication: Ham radio licenses are at an all time high, with over 700,000 ...

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 ...

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You are able to gift 5 more articles this month. Anyone can access the link you share with no account required. Learn more. Aside from the latest smartphone, ham radio has become the newest trend in ...

Well before the days of the tweet and the status update, people communicated with each other over sweeping distances by quite literally harnessing the earth's magnetic field to send messages via radio ...

BRAINERD — Brainerd Area Amateur Radio Club announced ham radio technician operator license classes will be 6:30-9 p.m. every Tuesday for seven weeks starting March 26. Class sessions will be at the ...

Amateur radio (ham radio) license classes will be offered in Chino Hills starting July 10, with a second session starting Aug. 28. Ham radio operators must be licensed by the Federal Communications ...

Are you interested in becoming a ham radio operator or upgrading your ham radio license class? Mississippi State's W5YD Amateur Radio Club is hosting a testing session to help those interested in ...

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 ...

The FCC reversed itself and revoked the license of amateur radio operator David Titus. In 2007, the Enforcement Bureau received information that Titus had been convicted of at least one felony sex ...

Mark and Paula Persons at their ham station. Starting in the 1920s and through the ’60s, almost every broadcast engineer was a licensed amateur radio operator. That has changed a bit, but the ...

Social networking wasn't always as easy as it is today. Long before Twitter or Facebook (or the internet itself), amateur radio was a popular way for folks to talk to people they may not necessarily ...