One problem with ham radio these days is that most hams live where you can’t put a big old antenna up due to city laws and homeowner covenants. If you’re just working local stations on VHF or UHF, ...

In the 1950s, Sen. Joseph McCarthy added amateur radio operators to his pool of possible subversives. “Hams,” he said, had “tremendous potential for passing out improper information for espionage.” ...

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 ...

Even if you are relatively young, you can probably think back on what TV was like when you were a kid and then realize that TV today is completely different. Most people watch on-demand. Saturday ...

What’s old is new again across the vast contested region. The U.S. military is returning to an old friend to help conquer the tyranny of distance in an increasingly contested area. The Defense ...

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Follow-on delivery order supports Marine Corps’ HFR II program of record Resilient capabilities enable command and control in contested environments Meets NSA crypto-modernization standards for secure ...

Tom Beckett gestures toward a window on the third floor of the Durham County Main Library. “We’re in the middle of a geomagnetic storm,” he announces. The room chuckles. There are no swirling vortexes ...

The popularity of cellphones and computer messaging should not turn ham radio into a technologically obsolete item such as the eight-track cassette player and the typewriter, according to Richard ...

As cyber threats continue to grow, so does the reality that digital satellite communications can be degraded and denied either through digital or electromagnetic means. If these capabilities are ...

A scout in Tobago uses a Barrett Communications high-frequency radio. (Photo provided by TEMA.) The disaster management agency in the Caribbean island nation of Tobago is bolstering its emergency ...