Ham radio isn’t just one hobby. It is a bunch of hobbies ranging from chatting to building things, bouncing signals off the moon, and lots of things in between. Some of these specialties, such as ...

It is popular to blame new technology for killing things. The Internet killed newspapers. Video killed the radio star. Is FT8, a new digital technology, poised to kill off ham radio? The community ...

Apr. 15—Peru resident Bill McAlpin said he vividly remembers being a kid and someone giving his father a shortwave radio receiver. Shortly after acquiring it, McAlpin's family strung an antenna up ...

Members of the Friendship Radio Club of Dunnellon and the Silver Springs Radio Club in Ocala hammed it up at bases in Dunnellon and the Ocala area during the 24-hour 2016 American Radio League Field ...

After watching a steady stream of television coverage of the horrendous conditions victims of Hurricane Katrina endured in the deadly storm’s wake, ham radio operator Dennis Motschenbacher had had ...

Amateur radio has been around for more than 100 years and, in this day of cell phones, computers and other high-tech devices, ham radio, as it is also known, continues to play an important role in the ...