The carnage left in the wake of Hurricane Helene has reinforced the importance of one of the oldest forms of communication technology still in widespread use: Ham radio, officially called amateur ...

Weather and climate-related issues have wreaked havoc throughout North America for the past few years. We are well aware of the fires, floods and mudslides in California and other parts of the West ...

The Humboldt Area Foundation + Wild Rivers Community Foundation distributed 12 grants totaling more than $120,00 to organizations and agencies supplying relief to residents impacted by the wildfires ...

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 ...

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.

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 ...

McADOO – When disaster strikes and traditional means of communications are disrupted, members of the Schuylkill Amateur Repeater Association join fellow amateur radio operators to bridge the gap.

The fun is seeing how far you can go, the point is being ready to keep contact when an emergency strikes. Members of the Orange County Amateur Radio Club spent the weekend camped out on a Huntington ...