Around 300 enthusiasts, from students to longtime professionals, attended the 27th annual event at LIU Brookville Saturday.

Have you ever considered running your ham radio remotely? It has been feasible for years but not always easy. Recently, I realized that most of the pieces you need to get on the air remotely are ...

HAM radio may seem antiquated by today's standards, but there are still plenty of good reasons to get licensed.

There was a time when ham radio operators were known for having long conversations over the radio — rag chewing, as they called it. A new program, LongChat, is a new entry into the ham radio software ...

What if you could broadcast signals across the globe using just a credit-card-sized computer and a handful of components? It might sound like a scene from a sci-fi novel, but with a Raspberry Pi and ...

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 ...

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 ...

Long before pixels and cell towers, there were dots and dashes. Morse Code was the complicated mainstay communication of choice practically from the day Samuel Morse started clicking his prized ...