When I was a kid living near Grantsville, West Virginia, some of my neighbors were into amateur ham radio. I found their analog electronics and antennas and their mastery of Morse code fascinating.

The Earth’s ionosphere is the ionized upper part of the atmosphere, and it’s also the most dynamic as it swells and ebbs depending on whether it’s exposed to the Sun or not. It’s the ionosphere that ...

CANFIELD — While volunteers tended the gardens outside, inside the barn at the Mill Creek MetroParks Farm in Canfield, a handful of ham radio enthusiasts from the Mahoning Valley Amateur Radio ...

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 ...

The four men examined the position of the ham radio’s antenna, adjusted it a bit to the north and then tried again, using a peculiar string of words as they tried to make a connection. “Whiskey, five, ...

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 ...