Lucas Adcock Staff Writer Let’s start with a vivid scenario – one which cripples the grid, extinguishing telecommunications via both landline and cell coverage. To add to the scenario, and to make it ...

There was a time when a ham radio set up sported many dials and switches and probably quite a few boxes as well. Computers have changed all that. Some transceivers now have just a few buttons or are ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. John Mitchell sits in front of his amateur "ham" radio setup, including a screen showing a map of the world and designated places ...

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 ...

Jim Scott, of Hartstown, Crawford County, is an award-winning ham radio operator. He’s communicated with fellow operators in every country of the world.

MANCHESTER — Pre-enrollment is required for an introduction to ham radio set for Nov. 10. “Ham radio, or amateur radio, allows people to communicate via radio over distances up to thousands of miles,” ...

Radios and walkie-talkies may seem like relics from your childhood, but nothing can quite compare to the convenience and simplicity of a pair of two-way radios. The freedom from reliance on a cellular ...

The International Space Station cost more than $100 billion. A ham radio set can be had for a few hundred bucks. Perhaps that explains, in part, the appeal of having one of humankind’s greatest ...

The Boulder County Fairgrounds turned into a communication hub Saturday during the Longmont Amateur Radio Club’s Summer Field Day. The annual event encourages ham radio operators to meet, practice ...

Advocate photo by Vic Couvillion -- Morgan King, foreground, operates a ham radio set neatly tucked into the trunk of his car while Cliff Oliver of Livingston, left, and John King Jr., Morgan's father ...