At the height of the Cold War when I was 13 years old, I got my amateur (ham) radio novice license. From the confines of a cramped closet in my bedroom, my “ham shack,” I talked via Morse code night ...

the Kent Amateur Radio Society. Broadcasting students at Kent County High School in Worton, Md., extended the reach of their voices beyond their radio station’s distance, making contact with people ...

CHAMBERSBURG - Local amateur radio operators will gather June 25 and 26 to spend 24 hours attempting to contact each other while anywhere from a few dozen to thousands of miles apart. Known as a ...

When Grass Valley resident Cal McKitrick woke up on Sunday, June 29, he set about his business in his usual way; he let his border collies out, poured himself a cup of coffee, and settled in to check ...

Jun. 24—BLUEFIELD — Local ham radio operators will be participating this weekend in a national amateur radio exercise, ARRL Field Day, an annual amateur radio activity organized since 1933 by ARRL, ...

Members of three regional amateur radio clubs will join ham radio operators worldwide for World Amateur Radio Day from 10 a.m ...

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 ...