LA MESA, Calif. — The International Space Station may seem galaxies away, but students are learning it's soaring only two hundred and twenty miles over our heads. In this Zevely Zone, I went to La ...
This is an exciting day for me — we finally get to build some ham radio gear! To me, building gear is the big attraction of amateur radio as a hobby. Sure, it’s cool to buy a radio, even a cheap one, ...
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 ...
In this day and age, there are countless methods of communication, but let's not leave radios in the past. Although smartphones offer similar functions, radios are still a trusted form of ...
The Bell Technology Center is going old school, teaching kids how to build their own amateur radios, with an eye on the future. The nonprofit wants to narrow the digital divide by inspiring more ...
Though the nonprofit’s project is focused on the history of radio, the project’s archivist said he also wants to preserve old internet communications as well. Reading time 3 minutes As much as some ...
When Helene swept across the Southeast on Sept. 27, including Western North Carolina, cell phones and internet-based communication became unusable. People still needed a way to talk — to check on ...