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 ...

Jerry Williams, left, and fellow members of the Amateur Radio Klub Earl Holts and Rob Wade test their ham radio equipment in the field Saturday. As part of an annual event called “Field Day,” people ...

This is only a test. The muffled words and numbers coming through the crackle of headphones at the American Red Cross office Saturday are part of a field day test by the Deep East Texas Amateur Radio ...

A group of hobbyists who have become experts in a low-tech form of communication are now a vital link helping local first responders in the event of a worst-case scenario. Bruce Wolfe likes to spend ...

COLUMBIA - This year's amateur radio field day kicks off at 1 pm Saturday. The Central Missouri Radio Association will participate in the national event highlighting radio communications in remote ...

Staff photo / Bob Coupland Frank Sole of Poland, left, and Andrew Brincko of Youngstown, who are both ham radio operators, look over material on the May 31, 1985, tornado during which they both helped ...

If anyone thinks ham radio is outdated, think again. When a 7.0-magnitude earthquake rocked Haiti in January and knocked out most communications — even cell phones — ham radio operators were able to ...

The dusty vacuum tubes, resistors, capacitors and coils dated back to another age of communications, but the attendees of the Virginia Beach Hamfest earlier this month maintain radio is as relevant in ...

Editor's note: This content was published by the City of Mercer Island. Your City's "hams" will join with thousands of amateur radio operators who will be showing off their emergency capabilities this ...

Volunteer ham radio operators are coming to the aid of relief agencies and emergency officials to help with badly needed communications in areas of Louisiana, Alabama and Mississippi ravaged early ...

BUFFALO, N.Y. (WIVB) – A catastrophic blackout could takeout modern modes of telecommunications. And that could spell big trouble for people and agencies that rely on power to communicate via the ...

The ham radio operators who brought their equipment to a downtown Babylon village parking lot on Saturday were there in part to do what they often do from home: communicate with fellow amateur-radio ...